color
me
puzzled
and tired.
you, who bring
Good News
where
and what,
exactly,
is it?
THEKINGDOMOFHEAVENISATHAND
do you even know what that means?
can you explain it?
better yet…
live it?
If I, as a fellow
name-bearer
of the Nazarene
don’t see the gift you bring
how
will
anyone
else?
defying atrophy 
If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
John 15:19
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Being hated should not be the primary fruit of an evangelist
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”
I’ll take the words of flesh and bone Jesus of the synoptic gospels over John’s gnosticism any day.
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Good question.
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