We are first and foremost saddened, because we all hurt when one church wants to leave the body, but the implications are far greater than that.

We will wait after Sept. 27 to see what happens.

This could be a landmark decision regarding the integrity of our constitution.

We did go through a lot of hurt when the church split. But one of the surprising outcomes was that when the people who were unhappy left, we were left once again with happy people. . . . We are and we continue to be a warm and welcoming place where people can come to worship.

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

I felt the game turn in that first set. By the third, my whole body hurt but that was no excuse to stop fighting.