To what?
Something Better
The Whole of God is...an invitation.
That's how crazy He is about being inviting.
He designed a whole earth and earthly-creatures-called-humans operation around that one concept.
Staggering.
So why do we, as evangelicals, get on this high-horse, get-it-right-right-now-or-else, superiority kick when our number one characteristic should be that we present as inviting?
Throw out what you say until you have allowed yourself to be immersed in invitational training.
When Jesus evangelized one-on-one, He translated the law into a language of invitation (John 8):
The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sight of everyone and said, "Teacher, this woman was caught red-handed in the act of adultery. Moses, in the law, gives orders to stone such persons. What do you say?"
Jesus...said, "The sinless among you go first: Throw the stone."
Hearing that, they walked away, one after another, beginning with the oldest. The woman was left alone. Jesus stood up and spoke to her. "Woman, where are they? Does no one condemn you?"
"No one, Master."
"Neither do I," said Jesus. "Go on your way. From now on, don't sin."His exquisite language of acceptance of who she was at that very moment was the vehicle through which He extended His ongoing, eternal invitation to Something Better.
The grace, the acceptance, was/is the stationary upon which God's invitation to Something Better was/is written.
If we are His party helpers, writing the invitations, let's use the right stationary.
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