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“Jesus loved the unlovely. He saw the love where we see neediness, he recognised the inner anguish and need for forgiveness where we see an embarrassing lack of protocol and poor behaviour.”

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One barrier to treating others as we should when we are following Jesus, in particular if they are with us on a Sunday, is our long standing and deeply held belief that partaking of the bread and wine should be restricted to baptized members, a belief we share with many other churches. It would make me, at least, feel as a second class person.

-JB