We have a chance at the end of one millennium and the start of another to announce this message to the world that so badly needs it. I believe we have this as our vocation: to tell the story, to live by the symbols. to act out the praxis and to answer the questions in such a way as to become in ourselves and our mission in God's world the answer to the prayer that rises inarticulately, now, not just from one puzzled psalmist but from the whole human race and indeed the whole of God's creation: "O send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling." And when we ourselves are grasped by that light and that truth, by the strange glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, we from within the crisis of truth in the contemporary world can say to those parts of our world that are still puzzled, to those parts of ourselves that are still dismayed: "Why are you cast down? Why so disquieted? Was it not necessary that these things should happen? Hope in God; for we shall again praise him, our help and our God." And we shall say it not just with words but with deeds; with policies, with symbolic praxis, that reveal in action the healing love of God.
excerpt from "The Challenge of Jesus" written by N.T. Wright
