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... ask Christian readers to refrain from using "Yahweh" and to encourage others to refrain from it as well.(Lewisn, J QTC Today, Summer 2003, 9) As leader in your Church community, how would you respond to this request? Each of us today is speaking about an element of Andre LaCocque's, The Revelation of Revelations. Shakespeare wrote, "What 's in a name?/That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet." Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2. A similar thought applies to the name of God, which is the focus of our attention today. Each of us may have a different name for God, but ultimately no name can completely encompass or describe what is by its nature indescribable. The Jewish tradition of not pronouncing the tetragrammaton in some ways points to this reality. The element that I pulled out of our readings and will comment briefly on is ...