You're not going to be a stranger in the world? That's a lonely idea right up there with one of the saddest words in our language,

homeless. Paul tells the Gentile converts,

Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the Saints.

Being a stranger in the world is what it means to be without Christ in our journey.

A stranger in the world is exiled from him and from home.

That would be lonely indeed, but Paul tells us something remarkably comforting in

these chapters.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian magazine's Come Follow Me Podcast.

This week the topic is for the perfecting of the Saints and we are studying the book of

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Right now on Meridian, we are in the midst of a drive to raise the money to build a school

with the Rising Star Outreach Foundation for the children of the

leprosy affected in Bihar India. Though we have spent much time in developing

nations, Scott, the leprosy colonies were by all means the most difficult and downtrodden on earth.

When our friend Becky Douglas first went to India years ago, she was heart sick to see those with leprosy begging.

At the stoplights, beggars would surround her car and shove

in deformed hands or arms eaten by maggots, hoping for the money to give them food for that day.

She could hardly look. Who knew leprosy still raged in some

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