No one is excluded; everyone is included. If you have any experience of being treated as unimportant or insignificant because you are a woman or a foreigner or a child or sick or handicapped or a newcomer or poor or a criminal or a failure or too young or too old, you don’t have to read very far in these books before you find that you are in on the action. You are named, you are loved, you are called, you are saved—you are in. You are included in God’s story as lived by Jesus.
