The Church is never a “members-only” club. Isn’t it sad that the Church became the gathering of the saved instead of what Jesus makes it in his open table of fellowship? Jesus’ table is the gathering of the unsaved! Sometimes fellow priests tell me, “We’re preaching to the choir. We’re saving the saved. We just keep gathering the same two hundred people, sing Jesus songs and read the Bible. And we convince one another that we’re saved and that we’re holy.” That’s what happens when the Church becomes established in one place, when the people come to the Church instead of us going to them. We
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