For every woman who had been trapped for centuries under glass ceilings, Jesus said, “Come unto me.” For every child who was excluded until ‘one day when you’re older,’ Jesus said, “unless you have faith like a child you cannot enter the Kingdom!” To the foreigner, He appeared to show their God was “not far off, as some have supposed.” And to the sick, the blind, the lame, the demonized, and the hopeless, again and again He sought them out so that they would know for the rest of time: “The Kingdom has come for you!” The King would bear our burdens and His Kingdom would welcome the last, the
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