Where are we?

The Church is always in a state of crisis and its greatest shortcoming is that it is only occasionally aware of it.

-Hendrik Kraemer

Every now and then, you hear something that makes you sit up straight. The Church is always at the precipice, straddling between danger and opportunity. That's not a criticism but rather a description of the reality in which the Christian finds him- or herself. It's all about being the embodiment of Christ in the world, and where you go to do that, and what you talk about, and who you talk about it with. We've been lulled to sleep if we think that there is no longer any danger and there is no longer any opportunity associated with being the Church. There are the projects in downtown New Orleans or Detroit, or the wrong side of any major city worldwide, the majority world in Africa and Asia, with desert and famine and war, and all kinds of people in all kinds of places who need to meet the one person we know. Where are we?