Unlike in this Story – v5

Christ warned them

those in the crowd

not to just their neighbors

not to cast the first stone

We are another crowd

unlike in this story

picking up our stones

off the sanctuary floor

Ready to throw them in judgment

unashamed of our sin

ready to carry them with us

out into the world.

edited November 12, 2015

Unlike in this Story – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/11/unlike-in-this-story-v7.html

(editing original again)

edited March 2, 2014

Unlike in this Story – v6

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/unlike-in-this-story-v6.html

(editing original again)

Edited November 11, 2013

Unlike in this Story – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/unlike-in-this-story-v5.html

(editing original again)

Edited September 28, 2013

Unlike in this Story – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/unlike-in-this-story-v4.html

(editing original again)

Edited August 29, 2013

Unlike in this Story – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/unlike-in-this-story-v3.html

(editing original again)

Edited August 28, 2013

Unlike in this Story – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/unlike-in-this-story-v2.html

June 14, 2011

Unlike in this Story

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/06/unlike-in-this-story.html

John 8:1-11

&

Samuel Thompson’s

http://www.facebook.com/#!/keleayon

Inclusion Essay

shared at the New England United Methodist Church

Annual Conference

http://www.neumc.org/pages/detail/195

in response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

for essays describing, “My vision for an inclusive church”,

June 10, 2011

&

Love on Trial,

http://www.loveontrial.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-On-Trial/190582754298364

the case against the Reverend Amy DeLong,

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572962166

which begins on June 20, 2011

http://www.rmnetwork.org/amy-delong/

&

in part inspired by conversations with

the Reverend John Makokha

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=556451505

Riruta UMC

http://rirutaumc.org

http://www.rmnetwork.org/

Other Sheep Afrika-Kenya http://www.othersheep.org/OSEA_CL_Other_Sheep_Kenya.html

Children of Africa Hope Mission Project in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. http://rirutaumc.homestead.com/children_of_africa.html

&

Matthew 25:31-46

The Sheep and the Goats

&
Matthew 28:18-20

Great Commission

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