“When we talk about what we love about church—this church—we talk about our

music program, we talk about Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for our

children, or maybe about the simple elegance of the worship space and the

way the light comes in. Each of these things might stick out to us, but of

course it’s not these things we are drawn to, but what comes through them,

what meets us in this space. We come here in search of peace, and we often

find it. We come to church in search of Isaiah 2. We do not, it turns out,

come to church in search of Matthew 24. That’s a weird gospel. ‘Keep awake,

therefore; for you do not know what day your Lord is coming.’ I know it’s

your favorite doctrine: the Second Coming of Christ.”