We believe in one holy, catholic and apostolic church...

What do we mean when we say this? As Archbishop Temple once pointed out, “nowhere does this church exist”. There is at times a very large gulf between what the Church should be and what the Church actually is.
It is very easy to “knock” the Church, because we know that it is far from perfect. The early Church had the same problems – that is why most of the New Testament was written. But that is no excuse for complacency. The Church is not an entity separate from ourselves, that we can poke fun at or complain about. As we have seen, the Church is US.