"The church is ... called to perform the good news of God's redeeming love in Christ. That is its vocation. What it means to be a good performer of the gospel, then, is not simply a matter of finding the right words - although it is clearly that - but it is also a matter of finding the right key in which to sing our song, the right meter and cadence in which to say our poem, the right register in which to play our piece. All performances of God's people, in other words, are repeat performances, at once emulating the one true performance of God in Christ but also an extension and variation - an improvisation, if you will - of that singularly defining performance. The elements of continuity and discontinuity, sameness and difference, old and new, make assessing the faithfulness of Christian performance an ongoing task."
James Fodor and Stanley Hauerwas 'Performing Faith: The Peaceable Rhetoric of God's Church" in Performing the Faith, 2004, p. 103.
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