We can chose Jesus’ side, which allows no divisions. Everyone is part of us. Or we can chose the world’s side, a life of constantly deciding who is in and who is out, whom we should love and whom we can marginalize, and struggling to maintain our place on the right side of countless lines we have drawn and wondering whom we have left to love and who can love us.
Here is a message I preached recently: http://subspla.sh/cr6wfxs