Christ brought us together through his death on the Cross.
Ephesians 2:16, The Message
"Churches are not Victorian parlors where everything is always picked up and ready for guests. They are messy family rooms.
They are not show rooms. They are living rooms, and if the persons living in them are sinners, there are going to be clothes scattered about, handprints on the woodwork, and mud on the carpet. For as long as Jesus insists on calling sinners and not the righteous to repentance -- and there is no indication as yet that he has changed his policy in that regard -- churches are going to be an embarrassment to the fastidious and an affront to the upright.
They are places, locations, where the light of Christ is shown. They are not themselves in the light."
Reversed Thunder
Eugene Peterson, God's Message for Each Day
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