Touched by the Lord, let us speak for Him.

We speak as those who,‘in the temple’, have caught a glimpse of the glory of God. In response to the divine commission ― ‘Go and tell this people’, ― we speak so that our hearers might see more clearly that ‘the whole earth is full of his glory’. We are aware that many would dismiss us as ‘touched’. For them, any reference to God is to be excluded from the outset. We freely acknowledge that we are ‘touched’: ‘he touched my mouth and said, ‘See, this has touched your lips” (Isaiah 6:1-9).
Over against the idea that God has been created in humanity’s own image, we affirm that it is humanity which has been created in God’s own image. We serve God by seeking to give him his rightful place in his world, We serve humanity by directing attention to the God of hope who is the hope of the world. In a world in which there seem to be so few signs of hope, it is essential that we point the way to the rediscovery of hope.

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