Commissioning of Cincy Presbytery particpants

Last night we that were chosen as commissioners for GA were commissioned at the Cincinnati Presbytery meeting. The highlight of the meeting was not the commissioning but of the speaker 'Walter Bruggemann'. In his sermon, he discussed that as Christians we should be subversive to the empire, in the old days, the Persian empire or Roman empire. Today, we should be subversive to the materialistic, economic empire. He also stated as Christians, whether liberals or conservatives, in Christ it doesn't matter. It seems we all have an agenda to squabble over. Bruggemann stated that our focus should be on Generosity, Hospitality and Forgiveness and the rest shouldn't matter. This is good advice as I prepare for GA for we all have agendas and opinions that we want to have heard and listened to but perhaps this is not really our purpose.