Our daughter Carole made her decision to become a minister while she was studying in England in the early 1970s.  When she told some of her fellow students about her decision to enter the ministry, they were incredulous...not that a woman would decide for the ministry, but that anybody would want to be a minister.  That means being part of the Church, doesn’t it?  they said.  Why the Church?  That’s the question with which I begin this morning.  Why the Church?  George Arthur Buttrick in his book So We Believe, So We Pray, expresses amazement that the Church found its way into our Apostles Creed.  He wrote: “Why should the Church become an article of belief?  Faith in God, in Christ, perhaps in the Holy Spirit, we can understand; but faith in the Church seems like leaning on a rickety fenc…