One day I clipped a picture from a newspaper because it intrigued me. I wish I could enlarge it and show it to you on a wide screen. It shows a church building under construction. Out front is a huge crane trying to lift the cross to its proper place on top of the steeple. But the crane can't reach high enough. So the cross is just dangling in mid-air. The newspaper article beneath the picture reported that the contractor planned to get another crane with at least a 120-foot boom and try again the following day.

I felt like sending a message to that contractor saying, "Do whatever you have to do, but be sure to put the cross on top." The symbolism is critical. It sends a message to the church and to the world as to what we consider to be most important. Unless the cross is at the top of o…