A few years back, I was talking with a homeless guy in an alley downtown, and he started sharing with me about God. He was familiar with the Bible but kept talking about “the Christians” in the third person. A little confused, I finally asked him, “Are you not a Christian?” “Oh no,” he said, “I am far too messed up.” I asked him what he thought a Christian is, and he said, “Someone who’s got their stuff together and has things figured out.” I confessed that I must not be a Christian either and that I wasn’t sure I had ever met one, and we laughed.1 We read together the passage where Jesus
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