love and adoration that stretches back into time immemorial and the overflow of which caused the very universe to be brought into existence—so that you, on a bland Sunday morning, as a sinner, could participate in the joy of the triune God, Father delighting in Son, Son adoring Father, with the Holy Spirit being himself the very bond of love into which you are swept up. This is why the world exists. And though you will not take on new physical features when you leave church that morning, you will
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