You Aren’t From Around Here, Are You?
You aren’t from around here, are you? This was a question I heard frequently growing up, as we moved with my father’s job. Most of the time, it was a sincere desire to build community and find shared commonalities disguised as a question/statement. Other times, the statement held a ring of exclusion, the statement that I was “other” or “not us.” This morning, as I read Luke chapter 15, I was reminded that sometimes we, as the Church, as believers…
