If we'd like to be among the 20% of ELCA churches that are healthy and growing, we need to internalize these hard words from Jesus:
"Go figure out what this Scripture means: 'I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders."
Two blind men are crying out for mercy. Jesus says to them, "Do you really believe I can do this?" They respond, "Why, yes, Master!" He touches their eyes and says, "Become what you believe." It happened. They saw.
I can see that the harvest is plentiful and that the workers are few. I pray that God inspires us to become what he would want us to be: a church that reaches out and changes people's lives.
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