We are called to be the church in our time and place. The calling of the Body of Christ – God’s church in the midst of the world -- is to faithfully live out the Gospel in context, in a given place and time. An obvious challenge is the variety of contexts and circumstances in which that life takes place: urban, rural, in times of war or times of peace, amid social revolutions and periods of retrenchment, among the rich and the poor, the powerful and the oppressed. And an even greater challenge is the fluidity of it all. Our world is not static and predictable, but dynamic, ever-changing. Our Reformation heritage teaches us to continually be reforming to engage a changing culture in new ways. And to paraphrase the Prophet, “That ain’t easy!”
