Fell asleep on this rainy Sunday afternoon counting the "funny-shaped sheep of God" one has encountered in the past week. Thinking quite a lot these few days about the potential for powerful kindness, and equally powerful cruelty, within the people of God in church. One heals, the other destroys. Crabb thinks that our ability to reach through the bad dynamics of sinful hearts and touch the holy appetites beneath depends on the answer to this question:"Are we so empowered by the Gospel that we are disposed to continue believing in another's miraculously granted goodness, and to therefore find delight in the other, no matter what degree of ugliness we encounter?"
- From "Connecting", by Larry Crabb
