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We appreciate all who prayed for us.We know there is power in prayer. we know we serve a God who is able to do much more than we can ask or even think. We thank you that you have allowed the Lord to use you and that you have been obedient to his instructions. We thank you and pray that God will bless you abundantly.
Let us be a Church unafraid to dream. Our Diocese is a microcosm of the new world in which a new world Church is struggling to be born. We find ourselves on the cutting edge of this struggle. We cannot be content with the ways of the past. We have new challenges; we must use our imaginations in meeting them and we must not be afraid to take risks.
- Let us be a Church that is in tune with the world around us, dealing with the real concerns of real people. We should not be answering questions that no one is asking.
- Let us strive for solutions to these concerns.
- Let us be a Church that matters, making a real difference in people’s lives. We cannot be a Church concerned with trivia while the major issues of our lives and times go unaddressed.
- Let us be an inclusive Church in which no one feels unwelcome or unwanted.
- Let us be an evangelizing Church, reaching out to the young and to the old.
- Let us be a witnessing Church — witnessing not a cause, not an ideology or an agenda, but witnessing the person and life of Jesus Christ.
- Let us witness the poverty of Christ in a consumer society.
- Let us witness the charity of Christ; let us witness the hope of Christ.
- Let us show forth the face of Christ by being known for our compassion, forgiveness and love.
- Let us be a Church in which all are servants.
- Let us be a confident Church, a Church that is not gloomy and without joy. We should be able to laugh.
- Let us be a community of disciples who seek to know the Lord and follow Him ever more closely. We are not perfect. We make mistakes, we ask for forgiveness, and we forgive one another.
- Let us be a community of disciples that perseveres in the teaching of the apostles, in the breaking of the bread and in prayer.
Finally, let us be a Church that has priorities, a Church in which there is a priority of persons over things and of truth over expediency, and a Church where there is a priority of love over all else. And so, a Church in which we say that the greatest of all, of everything, is love.
