Church Faith

Where’s there to place my faith if not the Church?
The Church takes seriously its role to play,
as Socrates once said, “For truth we search,”
the Church tries to define God’s truth each day.

For faith and truth, we’ve come to look to science,
but only truths of nature is its goal,
for spiritual truth we give the Church reliance ,
I do not go to science for my soul.

Yet science and the Church do not conflict,
God made them both to work within their place,
to put faith in myself would contradict,
the Church so better knows the world of grace.

O God, it’s truth and grace that I desire--
and love--that here You have Your Church inspire.

                                  by Pete Voelz      11/8/13