BOB PEDEN
This is Bob Peden of Central United Methodist Church. Jesus loved and invested in people ... all kinds of ordinary people. They gathered on the hillside to listen and marvel -- the oppressed, the sick, the outcast, the losers, the lonely and the powerless. They had been denied dignity, value, and hope. He looked into the eyes of friends and strangers alike and announced, "The kingdom of God belongs to YOU!"
They were blessed, not because of their condition, but in spite of it. Rather than telling them how they'd failed, he declared: "You are the salt of the earth." "But Jesus, we've been told we are the scum of the earth." "You are the light of the world." That's the God I follow. That is the God of love and grace and forgiveness. And that is Good News!
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