Following
Christ’s example,
maybe
listening to him truly
if
we even picked up a stone
if
we were prepared to judge them
dropping
our stones
knowing
our own sin
not
judging our neighbor
calling
them sin
We
may deny that is what we are doing
but
the stone in our hands
the
judgment beginning
unless
we lift our hands
we
raise our voice collective
unless
we scream and shout
dropping
our stones publicly
saying
this has to stop!
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edited May 15, 2014
dropping our stone
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edited
May 15, 2014
Calling
my brother sin
edited
May 15, 2014
Calling
me sin – v3
edited
May 12, 2014
Calling
me sin – v2
May
10, 2014
Calling
me sin
Luke
7:39
Luke
7:41-47
John
4:3-10
John
4:1-42
Samaritan
Woman at the Well
“Chapter
5. Sinners, Outcasts and the Poor”
The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus
by Reverend Adam Hamilton
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
&
June 11, 2011
The Stone in Our Hands
John
8
&
Samuel
Thompson’s
Inclusion
Essay
shared
at the New England United Methodist Church
Annual
Conference
in
response to call by Reconciling Ministries Network
for essays describing, “My
vision for an inclusive church”,
June 10, 2011
&
Love on Trial,
the case against the Reverend
Amy DeLong,
which begins on June 20, 2011
&
in part inspired by conversations
with
the
Reverend John Makokha
Riruta
UMC
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
Matthew 28:18-20
Great
Commission
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