We are all just sheep (Fr. Greg Boyle)

   In John’s gospel, when he speaks of the “sin of the world,” it is singular. And the sin is the division we create, the scapegoating, the otherizing, the striking of the high moral distance. But Christian love resists the scapegoating agenda by remembering the humanity, “the other.” 

    We hear about the separation of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25. Surely, this is a pretty good list of things to embrace and do and care about (hungry, thirsty, stranger, in prison, etc., and you tended to these folks. Which is to say, you were tender to them). But it’s the “separation” that departs from how God sees. Inclusion IS God. Separation ISN’T. There are no goats, just sheep – all sheep. 

    It is a message of radical, mystical kinship that addresses the singular sin of the world: To fail to see with God’s eyes. To see goats when, really, we are all just sheep. 

--Fr. Greg Boyle, The Whole Language:
The Power of Extravagant Tenderness 

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