The good news / Shirley C. Guthrie -- Jesus Christ as host and guest /Amy Plantinga Pauw -- The narrow door / Jon M. Walton -- The hem of his garment / Joanna M. Adams -- Come as you are / Ellen L. Babinsky -- The church and God's pentecostal gift / Letty M. Russell -- The church that is alive ... / Robert Bohl -- To bless the whole human family / Robert A. Chesnut -- Becoming the salt and the light / John M. Buchanan -- The great commission / William H. Hopper, Jr. -- Mud and meeting people /Anna Carter Florence -- Run the risk / Brian K. Blount -- Scripture:the word of life / W. Eugene March -- Reading the Bible and reflecting on history / Jack Rogers -- Where do you get that living water / Sheila C. Gustafson -- Biblical authority / Laird J. Stuart -- Bound together in Christ's name / Jane Dempsey Douglass -- Through times of challenge, controversy and hope / Deborah F. Mullen -- Of quarks and quirks /Linda C. Loving -- Multiculturalism or cultural circumcision / Karen Hernandez-Granzen -- A call to covenant community.