We can tell how well or how poorly our Church has done in helping us to find the answer to the question, "Who is God?", by conducting the following investigation. On what foundation do you build your answer to the question, 'Who is God'? Can you articulate it? Get you put it into words?

A Church has done well when the children of Adam and Eve can facilely articulate the foundation of their understanding of God. A Church has done poorly when we find it difficult to articulate the foundation. When we find it difficult to articulate a foundation, rest assured that our God is still a stranger to us . And nobody follows a stranger . “And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers” Most of us cannot articulate facilely the foundation on which we build our answer to the question, 'Who is God?'. When asked the question, we become tongue-tied. We stutter and stammer. Our Churches have failed us.

Our answer to the question, 'Who is God'? is worthless speculation unless it is derived from a solid foundation. An answer to a question derives its strength from its foundation. A weak foundation begets a weak answer; a strong foundation begets a strong answer. Therefore, tell us, on what foundation does your understanding of God rest? [Note: The fundamental unit of thinking is the troika of question, answer and foundation. They are the sub-atomic particles that form the nucleus of a conception.]

The strongest foundation comes from Jesus himself. It is the apocalyptic revelation that Jesus released into the Valley of Tears out of the violent collision between Jesus and the evil that we did to him on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. Rest your understanding of God elsewhere and your understanding of God will be distorted. It will be defective. It will be worthless speculation.