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"It's easy for the church to exist only in our mind as an abstract ideal. I can speak of church matters-of ecclesiology--of cosmic scale, in academic or exalted tones, conjuring vague images of saints in white robes. But, our love for the church universal is worked out in the hard pews (or folding chairs) of our particular, local congregation. Our local church...is the basic unit of Christian community..."