How can you think of saying to your friend,
'Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye', when you can"t see past the log in your own eye?
Matthew 7:NLT
When we see our own sin as logs, and others sin as specks, then we won't walk away in judgement, or look down from some lofty vantage point, or stand back, uninvolved... but we can run towards others in love...we'll jumpi in, we'll have compassion, want to know their story, & walk together in community...
Ethnicity, vocation, education, age, culture...whatever the barriers between us, melt away when we know that we're all saved by grace.
Grace alone.
Grace.
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Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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