Eagerly awaiting the encounter, the youngsters approached the wise man. One boy asked, “This bird that I hold in my hand; is it dead or alive?” Quietly the perceptive sage replied, “As you will, my son, as you will.” The church is not a sheltered sanctuary for saints. Rather, it is a survival station for sinners. —Joseph Jay Perceptive Christians have insisted that they must differentiate between the organization and organism, between the visible and invisible church, between statistics