The church unintentionally creates a new, exclusive community of believers. Some carry this to such an extreme that they are uncomfortable when genuinely lost people enter their sanctuary.
Notice our language. Even the word sanctuary implies a safe place away from the world and its evil impact.
How can believers be salt and light if they have effectively cut themselves off from knowing and associating with lost people?
In reading the VOICE NEW TESTAMENT this morning, I was impacted by Luke 15:1,
Jesus became increasingly popular among notorious sinners - tax collectors and other social outcasts.
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