A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them?. . To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life. Thomas G. Long
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