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a more mature Christianity will continue to change the Church so that like her members, she will be the same yet different. Because the Church has the Gospel, but also because the Church is in the contingent world, wherever she is there will be sameness and difference, progress and pitfalls. In more contemporary terms, where the Church is there will always be the Good News, but some accompanying bad news as well. But that is what it is to be the authentic Church, the Pilgrim Church, the People of God. Is this the same Church, then? Yes ...and ... no!