Everyone wants to feel accepted and be invited to participate and to belong to a community. It might be at school, on sports teams, at home, at work, or among friends. It is comforting and reassuring to feel wanted and welcome in our various circumstances. It might seem obvious that we should feel accepted at church even more than anywhere else. After all, the moment we understand we are fully accepted by Jesus and welcomed eternally by God, it should be the most defining and life changing moment we’ll ever experience.
As participants in the Kingdom of God, how can we, as Christ followers, live out acceptance and share it with the same attitude of Christ who accepted and welcomed us? What would be the result if we did?
