Who Gets to Decide Who Belongs? (John 10:1-10)
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We've built walls in Jesus's name. You know, around who can receive communion, and who has to sit with their hands in their laps and watch.
Walls around who can be ordained and who can feel the call, and still be told the door is closed to them.
Around who can be married in the church and who has to find another venue, another officiant, another community willing to say yes ... because “we don't allow that sort of thing around here.”
Around who belongs and who's welcome to worship, but not really welcomed to be part of the club.
We've set up traffic cones and enforced those barriers with great ruthlessness and considerable theological sophistication, and we've called it “faithfulness.”
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