The More Recent Effort To Encourage Everyone

Our Churches Should Attract The People Jesus Attracted And Frustrate The People Jesus Frustrated.

When We Really Began Executions Rather Than Lynchings, Black Folks Were 22% Of Our Population In 1950, For Instance, But They Were 75% Of The Executions. Now, African-americans Are 13% Of The Population, But They're Still Almost Half Of Death Row, And Over A Third Of The Executions. 34% Of The Executions Are Black Folks. So, Like, I Mean, Things Like The Race Of The Victim Is One Of The Biggest Determinants Of Who Gets Executed.

[mahatma] Ghandi Said In A World With So Many Hungry People It Just Makes Sense That God Would Come As Food. God Sent The Living Bread And The Living Water In A World Where There Is So Much Thirst And So Much Hunger.

Christianity Can Be Built Around Isolating Ourselves From Evildoers And Sinners, Creating A Community Of Religious Piety And Moral Purity. That’s The Christianity I Grew Up With. Christianity Can Also Be Built Around Joining With The Broken Sinners And Evildoers Of Our World Crying Out To God, Groaning For Grace. That’s The Christianity I Have Fallen In Love With.

If The People Of God Were To Transform The World Through Fascination, These Amazing Teachings Had To Work At The Center Of These Peculiar People. Then We Can Look Into The Eyes Of A Centurion And See Not A Beast But A Child Of God, And Then Walk With That Child A Couple Of Miles. Look Into The Eys Of Tax Collectors As They Sue You In Court; See Their Poverty And Give Them Your Coat. Look In To The Eys Of The Ones Who Are Hardest For You To Like, And See The One You Love. For God Loves Good And Bad People.