“…We don’t do something to deserve the gift of life, we just receive it. And the question for us is how we’ll spend it. We’re here because we’re trying to spend it in the service of a call that’s bigger than just us, we’re trying to spend it in the service of the call of the good news of Christ. And bridging divides among us and among all people is central to that call. It’s so central to that call that when the Book of Common Prayer defines the mission of the church in one sentence it says that the mission of the church is to restore all people to union with each other and with God…”
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