Kitchener, Ont.
Executive minister David Martin opened the Mennonite Church Eastern Canada annual general meeting with a sermon entitled "Let's stop coddling the saints." In it, he quoted from author Annie Dillard's view of church:
"Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our …
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