No matter who you are, what your beliefs are, what you’ve done or haven’t done we want you here with us! We’ve actually been saving a place for you.
Most groups, clubs, and organizations have a written or unwritten standard for belonging – but if you pay attention to Jesus you’ll notice that he didn’t. Jesus’ only criteria for being in his group was a desire to be in his group – a willingness to follow him.
This meant that Jesus’ group was full of all kinds of people: rich and poor, people from the far political right and the far political left, people who had committed every kind of sin, people who had wrong ideas about God, Jesus and the Dream of God, and people from a variety of ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds. Jesus’ way of forming a group of followers made a lot of people uncomfortable (and still does), but it is the best way to live out the Dream of God.’
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