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After he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln took a boat to Richmond. When he got off the boat, several black people recognized him and began
clapping and singing. One of them ran up to Lincoln, knelt before him, and started to kiss his shoes. Lincoln forcibly restrained him and said, "Get off your knees; you must bow only to God."
Peter would not let Cornelius worship him. He would minister to Cornelius man to man, sinner to sinner. He would meet him where he was and walk with him to where God would lead both of them.
I know a new church that's growing by leaps and bounds. The other churches in the area can't understand why. What's their secret? Their secret, which is no secret at all, is that they accept people as they are, understand where they've been, and invite them to join the journey toward the kingdom of God.
That's no secret but it's often ignored in our churches. Too often, a new person in the church is asked to look up to those already there so much that he/she has no time to look within to where God works in his/her life. People are expected to become replicas of the "saints" when what they need are brothers and sisters who walk alongside them.
Peter did this with Cornelius.
- Barnhart
After he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln took a boat to Richmond. When he got off the boat, several black people recognized him and began
clapping and singing. One of them ran up to Lincoln, knelt before him, and started to kiss his shoes. Lincoln forcibly restrained him and said, "Get off your knees; you must bow only to God."
Peter would not let Cornelius worship him. He would minister to Cornelius man to man, sinner to sinner. He would meet him where he was and walk with him to where God would lead both of them.
I know a new church that's growing by leaps and bounds. The other churches in the area can't understand why. What's their secret? Their secret, which is no secret at all, is that they accept people as they are, understand where they've been, and invite them to join the journey toward the kingdom of God.
That's no secret but it's often ignored in our churches. Too often, a new person in the church is asked to look up to those already there so much that he/she has no time to look within to where God works in his/her life. People are expected to become replicas of the "saints" when what they need are brothers and sisters who walk alongside them.
Peter did this with Cornelius.
- Barnhart
