I hope to arrive...

It is a sad commentary on Church that this quote from Brian McLaren doesn't describe every house of worship. Like Brian and many others, I am:

hoping to encourage the church to be a more hospitable, healthy, and wholesome place for seekers, so when they come in and become disciples, they will not be socialized into believers who are excessively argumentative, judgmental, and hostile to both the world and to many of their fellow Christians.

Dare to insist that your community of faith becomes:

a profound new convergence – where formerly alienated people come together as never before to form Christ-centered communities in which more and more of us learn to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength … in which we learn to love our neighbors and our enemies according to the teachings of Jesus … and through which we teach others by word and example to do the same, empowered by the Holy Spirit. Toward that convergence I will continue to bend my efforts in grateful collaboration with all who dream a similar dream.