Sublime

The church is the house of ministry because it is a place of prayer. The pastor prepares his people for ministry by teaching them to pray, by creating space for his people to pray for others and be prayed for. We receive the being of God through giving and receiving ministry. Prayer is the most directed, embodied way to live out of the disposition

doctrine and theology follow practice.

Rest

Revelation comes in hypostatic union, and Jesus promises to be present in the resonant connection of receiving (ministering to) persons. Resonance is dependent on efficacy, and when we approach children in this spirit of efficacy, when we take responsibility for them, we encounter the living Christ.

Finding a way to shine light into the world, finding a way to nurture and cherish the next generation, remains the fundamental work of a covenanted community: rearing children al pi darko, on the path they should walk—a path of justice and love.

the church-community has its being only as it is being-in-Christ. And the church-community is in Christ by being a community of persons in relations—and resonance,

Murdoch believed that one of the core projects that each of us needs to undertake is to “unself”. “The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.”

For Murdoch, there is no backstage self. As long as we

whatever authority we hold, we hold it for the good of the entire group, not for our own sense of self.

Here, as a result of these concepts, is a prayer life grounded in faith, witness, attention, and serious study.