Outsider
This Week's Theme: Racial Sensitivity
Gary Kunz
Sunday, June 24, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). Bonus Reading: Luke 18:9-12
I can still remember how excited I was about playing Little League baseball as I walked toward the park. Then suddenly my memory fast-forwarded so quickly that all I could remember was that same seven-year-old boy running home with his glove and sobbing.
After years of replaying this unresolved event in my mind, I learned from my mother exactly what occurred. She said that the Little League coach required that I have my father or some other adult sign the registration form. But my parents had just recently divorced. Without a father, I felt hopelessly inadequate to be part of the team—consigned to being an outsider.
In Jesus' day, such people as tax collectors were despised by self-righteous Jews and consigned to be "outsiders" by the religious authorities.
It's no wonder that the Pharisee in [today's Bonus Reading] looked at the tax collector with such disdain. But God's desire is that no one be barred from His kingdom just because of race, gender, social standing or economic status.
—Gary Kunz in God's Man
Dear Father, please remove the cataracts of insensitivity from my eyes so that I can see others with true compassion.
Adapted from: Don M. Aycock, God's Man (Kregel, 1998)
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Dear Father, please remove the cataracts of insensitivity from my eyes so that I can see others with true compassion.
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