"Every Christian man or woman should from time to time frame for himself a Rule of Life...." It is possible that even this guide is a bit too vague for the average Layman. I think what the Layman wants the Church to say (is), "Here is a simple rule; start here and build on this your way of living the Faith ." This simple rule consists of six parts or precepts... 1. Attendance at Public Worship and regular Communion. Why does the Church exist? The Church is not primarily a charitable organisation nor an educational institution. It is not the Church's first business to teach people the right way to live, nor to promote social justice, nor to help the poor and the sick, nor to be the instrument of founding and spreading God 's Kingdom on earth. All these things are secondary to her first business, which is to worship God , to glorify and praise Him. The first and chief reason why the Church exists is the worship of God . Worship is the Church's primary duty, and the activity from which everything else follows. It is true that good practising Christians are a leaven in society, but that is not their "reason for being." The essence of the Christians' religion is that they have become the Body of Christ and live in Him. The little child at Baptism is grafted into the Body of Christ. Oh, if our people could only grasp that fact, we would see then that our first duty is to be the Body of Christ. One of the great blessings of the Reformation was the Bible and Prayer Book in our own language. A study of our liturgy makes it very clear that the Sunday offering of worship is a joint offering of Priest and Laity. So many of our people cherish the concept of "The Priesthood of the Laity", yet so few of them accept its implication, that without the Laity the Church's worship is imperfect. Every Churchman by his Baptism and Confirmation has a duty to God to worship Him every Sunday if he possibly can. That is what Sunday is for. Bishop R.C. Mortimer , a great moral theologian, says, "To let a whole Sunday pass without going to Church is a sin. It is the sin of irreligion. It is comparable in gravity with theft, or malice or fornication. These latter sins are breaches of our duty to our neighbour. Not going to Church on Sunday when we 42