...the Church in Australia were to achieve unity while maintaining our colourful diversity. This unity will be in our common foundation - the foundation that Jesus laid, building on the same rock. Our teachings will reform. We will humble ourselves. Many of our family will return to Orthodox teaching and many will begin to practice what they teach as Orthodox. We are not all going to be on the same page at the same time. Our faith will become more personal and less private. It will begin to see our role as ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven, and begin to re-evaluate what it means to be Ambassadors of that Kingdom. We will begin to understand that today is all we have. The Church in Australia will be a lighthouse and a salt shaker in this land and this region. Each Christian will understand that they are ministers of reconciliation. We will learn from each other, and like today’s multi-cultural children born to parents of different races, the world will struggle to paint us with any particular brush as we begin to look more similar, and best of all we will begin to look more beautiful.
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