Beyond Our Kind

It takes much to live in your own skin.

Getting on with people in a different culture is always going to be difficult. What makes it easier is finding common ground. Even this, however, is designed to make matters easier to engage with the more unfamiliar territory.

The effort is such that it is no surprise that people prefer to stay among their own.

I like the enterprise of moving beyond your own kind to establish relationships that brings a new kind of your own kind. Sometimes I get the impression that aspects of the gospel impulse is to realise new kinds beyond our kind and then expanding the kind that is unified by the love of Jesus Christ.

Just a thought (that has implications for how we are church).

For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden