"Which is, friends, exactly why I think we come back to church Sunday after Sunday. Forget what we've been told about church being a place of salvation and purification, or even a place of forgiveness and maybe even forget the common focus on it being a place of community. First and foremost, it seems to me that church is a place of memory, or better yet, a place of remembering. Everything, friends, everything good about church flows directly from that!
Our worship matters to us because it helps us remember who we are and who we want to be."
Rev. Scott Tayler, "In Dark Woods", a sermon delivered at First Unitarian Church, Rochester, NY, on January 13, 2008.
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"First and foremost, it seems to me that church is a place of memory, or better yet, a place of remembering. Everything, friends, everything good about church flows directly from that!"
That would depend on the memories one is remembering on any given Sunday. Up here in Quebec the license plates display the slogan, "Je me souviens". . .
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