Impetus to clarity:

"The gospel message — new life — and the gospel medium — a new people — are simultaneously one."

Our witness or 'truth' as a church cannot be reduced to a form of words or a measuring of ceremonial marks.  Christ prayed that his followers would be one, because they function as the exibition, proof and demonstration of God's faithfulness in sending him. They become God's embodied word.

And we desperately need to be challenged at every level of our church life by the notion that we are the gospel.