That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
The church is like Noah's ark. It stinks, but if you get out of it, you'll drown.
It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.
A lot of the world looks to the United States, whether we like it or not.
Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.
There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.