Humility is the power of connection. Then, once humility has been exercised with some real, meaningful, tangible, evident action of a way of being; then, and only then, can one connect.
Eighty-one percent of Alabama’s white evangelicals who voted in Alabama’s senate election yesterday voted for Roy Moore, weighing his professed conservative Christian values against a record of racist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-women’s rights rhetoric, and more recent accusations of sexual assault against minors.
…first-century readers would have been so struck by the scandalous-ness of the gospels and by their confrontation with the power claims of the Empire, that the gospels would have been banned books of the highest order. It should not be surprising that so many first-century Christians were killed by the Romans.