this church.

i was reminded of this quote by something my friend, lic, said...

i love this church, this living, pulsing, sinning People of God, with a crucifying passion. Why? For all the Christian hate, i experience here a community of love. For all the institutional idiocy, i find here a tradition of reason. For all the individual repression, i breathe here an air of freedom. For all the fear of sex, i discover here the redemption of my body. in an age so inhuman, i touch here tears of compassion. in a world so grim and humorless i share here rich joy and earthy laughter. in the midst of death, i hear an incomparable stress on life. For all the apparent absence of God, i sense here the real presence of Christ.

~ Walter Burkhardt

i love the last line.