The document discusses a congregational discernment process for hearing God's voice together while maintaining unity in Christ through passionate love for God and others. It also notes regional policies forbidding same-sex weddings and knowingly promoting openly gay candidates for ordination. References are made to "the way of Jesus," playing ball, an adversary, betrayal, and something described as a "beautiful thing."

2. the way of Jesus

3. Play Ball!

5. congregational discernment process
– We learn to hear God’s voice together.
– We maintain our unity in Christ.
– We are passionate in loving God and others.

6. Our American Baptist regional policies
– We cannot perform same sex weddings.
– We cannot knowingly promote a candidate for
ordination who is living an openly gay lifestyle.

7. wily adversary willful betrayer
the heat is on

8. “she did
what she could”

9. kalon – a beautiful
thing