I truly cannot accomplish.[2] I would like to attempt to use your letter’s questions to reflect on what we pastors, or what you as a layperson, actually can do—not to reform the church but at least to avoid hindering and destroying that new thing that perhaps is emerging. I believe that we must limit our task in this way from the outset. We are not the ones who reform the church, but we are indeed very capable of blocking the way if God has decided to renew it. For us it can only be a matter of making
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