you’ll find in the following pages. In short, we’ve become friends. The final component, philosophical purity, was by far the hardest to develop. In a volunteer organization like the church, it can take a long time to hammer out a consensus on priorities and ways of doing things. In our case, it was nearly four years before we were all headed the same direction. Maintaining philosophical purity doesn’t mean we all think alike. It’s not a call for clones or even unanimity; there’s plenty of room for