I heard a very challenging message at Third Format (http://www.thirdformat.com/) last night on the sin of prejudice. It was such a timely reminder to me that those who aren't believers are of equal value and importance to God and so should be to us. Christ's death isn't only a statement of the extent of God's love, it's also a statement of the worth He places on human beings… all human beings… every single human being. So that whenever you're around people of any kind, shape, color, religious or sexual preference, you're around that which is sacred.
Fred Rogers once said that he always felt like bowing when he was around any human being as if he were in the presence of royalty, because, in his worldview, he was. This is what it means to preach the gospel to every person. It starts with walking alongside people and treating them as those who have been included in that gospel – that they are someone for whom Christ died. Imagine what the world would look like if each of us did this?!
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