Speaker and Musician: Greg Greenway
Service Host: Beverly Horton
All we want to do is change the world, to step into the path of a leviathan with centuries of momentum. Even to the most optimistic, the 8th Principle signs us on to a daunting course of action. So where does the hope come from? It comes from the lives of courageous, tenacious people like Flonzie Brown-Wright, the first African American woman to be elected to a state office in Mississippi, and from ourselves. It comes from looking honestly at what came before us, refusing to be paralyzed by the unvarnished truth, and seizing upon our positive gifts to bend what we have the power to bend toward justice. Ultimately, the 8th Principle refocuses us on the First Principle. It calls on us to live up to our most fundamental belief. So as you open the door to the church and look in to see a community of the willing, you are looking at hope.