True Tolerance Is Not A Total Lack

Today's Widespread Relegation Of Religion To Merely Something People Do Only In The Privacy Of Their Homes Or Churches Would Have Been Unimaginable To The Founders Of The Republic - Even Those Who Personally Repudiated Orthodox Christian Faith.

The Life Function Of [the Local Church] Is To Love The God Who Created It - To Care For Others Out Of Obedience To Christ, To Heal Those Who Hurt, To Take Away Fear, To Restore Community, To Belong To One Another, To Proclaim The Good News While Living It Out. The Church Is The Invisible Made Visible.

The Bible - Banned, Burned, Beloved. More Widely Read, More Frequently Attacked Than Any Other Book In History. Generations Of Intellectuals Have Attempted To Discredit It, Dictators Of Every Age Have Outlawed It And Executed Those Who Read It. Yet Soldiers Carry It Into Battle Believing It More Powerful Than Their Weapons. Fragments Of It Smuggled Into Solitary Prison Cells Have Transformed Ruthless Killers Into Gentle Saints

To Turn Away From The Great Questions And Dilemmas Of Life Is A Tragedy, For The Quest For Meaning And Truth Makes Life Worth Living.

Frontline Love. It Is Our One Hope For Breaking Down Barriers And For Restoring The Sense Of Community, Of Caring For One Another, That Our Decadent, Impersonalized Culture Has Sucked Out Of Us.