So, 'church' consists of some pretty cool, wise and awesome people, right?
Then there's those people we don't often talk to—maybe they're too geeky or seemingly arrogant; maybe too introverted or extroverted; maybe they're just poles apart from us in culture or generation. Why be part of this club?
There's too much diversity!
Yet, what brings us all together but the
gospel? Jesus paid the penalty for all sin by his death, that
whoever puts their trust in him receives not only forgiveness, but eternal life and a glorious inheritance with him—
there is not a hint of discrimination. Being united as one body, we have also been called to encourage one another daily so that none of us may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness and so drift away from such a great salvation.
When we learn to love one another like this, this diversity becomes glorious for the name of Jesus.
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The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one.. so that the world may know that you sent me.
John 17:22-23
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A friend once told me: "Do you know how to tell if a church really gets Christian community? See how many weird people there are at the church... I'd rather be part of a church that's filled with strange and weird people than one where everybody is 'normal', because I'd probably not fit in."
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