At its best, the church will be a sanctuary from this idolatrous babble, and here, if nowhere else, you should find other souls who will remind you that your life is not a quest for significance or self-actualization, but an act of joyful participation in God’s grace. In the liturgy of church, in sacrificially serving each other, in reminding each other that we are not our own, and in coming to the Lord’s Table we can push back against the contemporary anthropology as a community. Too often churches in America fail to live up to this standard, even though we have the resources in our tradition
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