My Christ says, Your job is to get off your self-righteous butt and start reaching out to difficult people, because my ministry wasn’t about a bunch of nice people getting together once a week to sing hymns and get a feel good message, that you may or may not apply, depending on your depth of anger for someone. It is about caring for and helping the broken-hearted, the difficult, the hurt, the misunderstood, the repulsive, the wicked, and the liars. It is about turning the other cheek when someone hurts you. It is about loving one another and making amends. It is allowing people as many chances as they need because God gives them endless chances. When you do this, then you will know me and you will know true happiness and peace. Until then, you will never know who I really am. You will always be just a fan or a Sunday-only warrior. You will continue to represent who you are to the world, but not me. I am the God that rescues.
--Shannon L. Alder
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