A disciple of Jesus is someone who not only enters the story of another people, Israel, but also someone ready to enter the stories of those to whom she is sent by God. Christians have often failed to see difference as an invitation to change, transform, and expand our identities into the ways of life of other peoples. So our embrace of other cultures and ways of life have most often in our long history not pressed toward the depth and intensity of the divine embrace of their lives. We have therefore undermined their freedom in Christ to be themselves and yet more. Too often Christianity has
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