Today, God challenges us not to let the Gospel sit like an unopened letter on the table or email in our inbox. May we acknowledge it and let the “received” word move us from casual listeners to a committed followers and disciples.
Repetition is never redundancy in the kingdom of God. It is grace. Without reminders, we forget and drift. That’s why we should never grow weary of hearing again what think we already know.
In the natural world, no one chooses his/her siblings. This is a radical call to embrace each other as family, rather than treating the church like a club where the imperfect, the struggling, the different are not welcome.
