For all too many people in our so called Christian society , and indeed for all too many people in the church, faith is an add on – an extra dimension to our life as it were but not really, when all is said and done, truly central to our understanding of life.

Some Church people feel that this is what the Christian life is all about

– that it is about bringing justice to the world by naming the social and

political problems that exist all around us and warning people that if

they don’t smarten up that “God will get them….”