Someone has said the church is somewhat like a football huddle, the huddle that players go into at a football game.

''You know that something important is being said there, but you can't understand a word of it, and all you can see is their rear-ends."

But in fairness to the church, we must admit that it isn't easy to be understood by the world, after all, what we are talking about, in this huddle called church, is God. That's hard to talk about.

I vividly remember as a pastor, sitting with a group of lay-people, all active leaders in our congregation. And I asked the group, how many of you have talked about your faith in God with someone in the past year? Only one person raised her hand.

But it is hard to talk about God. When we speak of his mystery, words fail. How do we find the wor…