What does it mean to be a faithful church?

While the former pastor of Trinity UCC in Chicago, the Reverend Wright was much in the public eye and the church was characterized as something less than a good Christian church, the general public has had little information about the church itself.

In April, the Christian Century did an interview with Otis Moss III, the current pastor of Trinity UCC. As part of the interview, he was asked:

How do you define a faithful life?
It happens in several dimensions. There is the internal personal dimension: the spiritual disciplines of prayer and meditation. Then there is the critical-thinking dimension: how are you developing your mind? And indispensably, for us, there is the question of your connection to the community. If Jesus’ inaugural sermon is, “The Spirit of the Lord has come upon me to preach the good news to the poor,” then how are we doing that? Are we setting the captives free? Are we opening the eyes of the blind? We have to challenge people to make faith more than a footnote in their lives, to make it the primary chapter of their lives. This is especially difficult in the American context, where a market culture convinces people to push faith to the margins.

Sounds like a good church to me. In fact, it sounds like Trinity Church has gotten closer to taking the teaching of the New Testament seriously than many other churches I have seen.