People have never understood Jesus. Even the religious people (who should have understood Him) didn’t. Actually, religious people sometimes seem to understand Jesus even less than other folks. Dang, even people who believe in Jesus and raise their kids to believe in Jesus don’t always have a clue of who He really is and how His heart works. Here’s a quick example of what I’m talking about: Sometimes people will do every single thing in their power to shelter their children from the world because they want them to grow up to be ‘good Christian’ kids. They protect them from the media, they protect them from the schools, they protect them from the society so that the “liberal agenda of godless people” doesn’t infect them, and the idea is to keep the kid pure and untainted so that they’ll be ‘good Christian’ kids. Bless their hearts, these folks mean well, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of something extremely important going on here, and it is this: There are no ‘good Christian’ people. You can’t protect a person from sin. Every single person (bar none) has a sinful heart pumping oxygenated blood to their sinful minds. We are all filthy, broken, helpless sinners. Avoiding sin is a pointless endeavor. We don’t need to be sheltered. We just need Jesus. You can’t protect a person from sin, because trust me, they will find a way to sin. Just tell them about the One who received, accepted, hung out with and loved sinners. Oh, Hallelujah! This is the best news ever! Jesus didn’t ostracize sinners! Jesus didn’t protect Himself or His ministry from sinners! He loved sinners. He liked them. He hung out with them! Jesus is a friend of sinners.
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