Life in Your Way
Induction
Induction
Some of you need to hear this for the first time, and so this is from our hearts:
The Kingdom of God is for the burnouts, the broken, and the broke, the drug addicts, the divorced, the HIV-positive, the herpes-ridden, the hopeless, for the outcasts that have been created by the church, and for the outcasts of our society that have been created by us.
The Kingdom of God is for the brain-damaged, the incurably ill, for the barren, the pregnant-too-many-times, and the pregnant at the wrong-time. This is for the over-employed, the underemployed, the unemployable, and the unemployed. This is for the swindled, the shoved aside, the left aside, the replaced, the incompetent, and the stupid. This is for the emotionally starved and the emotionally dead.
The Kingdom of God is for the bigoted, the murderers, the child molesters, the brutals, the drug lords, the terrorists, the perverted, the raging alcoholics, over-consumers, the incredibly ugly, the dumb, the ignorant, the starving, the filled, and the filthy rich. The Kingdom of God is for everyone and the Kingdom of God is for me.
The Kingdom of God is for the burnouts, the broken, and the broke, the drug addicts, the divorced, the HIV-positive, the herpes-ridden, the hopeless, for the outcasts that have been created by the church, and for the outcasts of our society that have been created by us.
The Kingdom of God is for the brain-damaged, the incurably ill, for the barren, the pregnant-too-many-times, and the pregnant at the wrong-time. This is for the over-employed, the underemployed, the unemployable, and the unemployed. This is for the swindled, the shoved aside, the left aside, the replaced, the incompetent, and the stupid. This is for the emotionally starved and the emotionally dead.
The Kingdom of God is for the bigoted, the murderers, the child molesters, the brutals, the drug lords, the terrorists, the perverted, the raging alcoholics, over-consumers, the incredibly ugly, the dumb, the ignorant, the starving, the filled, and the filthy rich. The Kingdom of God is for everyone and the Kingdom of God is for me.
How often I forget that Jesus loved/loves EVERYONE! I sometimes feel that I need to get to a certain stage of holiness before I can approach God. Thankfully, Jesus shattered this myth during his time here on Earth.
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" Mark 2:15-16
If Jesus hung out with sinners and tax collectors, he surely has room for an inconsistent, prone to stray-from-the-path, anxious, graduate student in His Kingdom.
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. 16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the "sinners" and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" Mark 2:15-16
If Jesus hung out with sinners and tax collectors, he surely has room for an inconsistent, prone to stray-from-the-path, anxious, graduate student in His Kingdom.
1 comment:
Hey Scott. This is Chris Clouzet. I read your blog now and then, so I just wanted to use it to let you know that I just sent you an email to your Southern account (I think it's your address...) in case you don't check it that often. I don't know how else to contact you right now. I need to remedy that. Anyway, check that email if you got it, and let me know what you think! Take care. (PS: I enjoy your blog. I'm not even sure if I'm following it right now, but I'll check and do that if I'm not. If you don't mind...)
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