"I am building a church," said a small boy playing with a set of blocks, "and we must be very quiet." His father, eager to encourage this unexpected act of reverence, asked, "Why are we to be quiet in church?" "Because," the boy replied, "the people are asleep." Heaven help us if that is how we perceive the church or if that is the way others perceive us. The church of Jesus Christ must be the most alive, most dynamic, most awake institution on this planet. We have a lot of work to do, don't we?

A visitor to the Grand Canyon once stood speechless before the grandeur of that marvelous sight. Finally he recovered enough to exclaim, "I wish I had been here to see this happen." The ranger standing nearby said, "You are!" The ranger was saying that the Grand Canyon is still happening. That mighty gorge in the earth is still changing, still growing. So it is with the church.