Love Is Patient, Love Is...Strenuous

By Jacqui Lewis
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Sep 27, 2016
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I don’t think we like it so much when Jesus is demanding. We like to nice him up, keep him holding up his hand in that beatific way. When Jesus gets demanding, when he acts like the Gospel is demanding, it kind of gets on our nerves.

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