Hmm? Ah!

Hmm.

One gets denied.

He was lost and now is found.

Now, there are a lot of stunned faces.

When I asked all of you to sit by a stranger today,

and I'm still seeing a lot of awkwardness with the arrangement.

A lot of stiff backs, clenched butt cheeks.

Why?

Those of you that were out there in the wasteland,

you know from the people you found from the ones you could rely upon,

that it didn't matter that you were strangers beforehand, did it?

You were forced to see the humanity in each other,

and though not bound by blood, these strangers became more than friends,

they became family.

Why is it that way out there?

But not that way in here.

Romans 3.23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Now, let me repeat that.

All of us have sinned.

And that is the very thread that binds us together.

And if you strip yourselves of the superficial labels,

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