Most Risky Place

Christian vitality has not always been maintained by the majority. It has, in fact, often been found only in small minorities. Such minorities have no voice where conformity to "official" interpretation is required. Unless we wish to stifle emergent spiritual vitality, we must be sure that people within our fellowship will be free to express themselves in ways which are different from the majority position without the fear of being labeled as disloyal.

-- "Biblical authority and Christian freedom", Evangelical Covenant Church, 1963

Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.

-- Peter Enns