Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them.

Then he said, 

"I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven.

So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."

Matthew 18:2-4 NLT

This is part of a long dialogue from Jesus about our children & their preciousness.

And it's prompted by the disciples wanting to know who's going to be the greatest. 

Who's going to have the power.

And Jesus calls in a small child. 

A child with no power.

And says to his students, his disciples, you're asking the wrong questions.

Not only that, but you're not seeing the Kingdom for what it is, you're still looking at it like Empire, like the power structures of the world, and my Kingdom is just not like that. 

My Kingdom elevates those with no power.

The small.

The vulnerable.

Those without a voice. 

They are seen.

And they matter. 

Jesus wanted his students to see something in this child that they weren't seeing because of their own cultural glasses, their own expectations.

What's our question?

(What makes a good Christian?)

Who would Jesus bring into the circle?

What would Jesus want us to see about the Kingdom, and what ideas would he want us to let go of?

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