The Image of God and the Public Square
The benediction is not the end of worship—it is the beginning of the Church's public vocation. What if the purpose of Sunday worship is not simply to prepare us to defend our beliefs, but to teach us how to see? In a world that trains us to look for causes, labels, and divisions, this essay argues that the Church leaves the Meetinghouse with a different calling: to go in search of neighbors and to remember what God has already seen.