The cross is not an edict against the sinner. It is a romantic proclamation to the sinner.
Why do so many in the church take up the mantle of the Pharisee and find it pleasing?
How can a conflicted, angry, bitter, excluding bride honor the Groom?
Somehow the church must forsake the stones of condemnation and enter into His pure and confounding grace. If we lose ourselves in radical, relentless, redemptive love we will find Him where He has always been. He has left the 99 to find the one.
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