A Beautiful Collection of Misfits
Have you read Brennan Manning’s book The Ragamuffin Gospel?
It’s sooooo good.
Here’s a little excerpt:
“On a sweltering summer night in New Orleans, sixteen recovering alcoholics and drug addicts gather for their weekly AA meeting. Although several members attend other meetings during the week, this is their home group.
They have been meeting on Tuesday nights for several years and know each other well. Some talk to each other daily on the telephone; others socialize outside the meetings.
The personal investment in one another’s sobriety is sizable. Nobody fools anybody else.
Everyone is there because he or she made a slobbering mess of his or her life and is trying to put the pieces back together. Each meeting is marked by levity and seriousness.
Some members are wealthy, others middle class or poor. Some smoke, others don’t. Most drink coffee. Some have graduate degrees, others have not finished high school.
For one small hour, the high and the mighty descend and the lowly rise. The result is fellowship.”
This line really hits me: THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY DESCEND AND THE LOWLY RISE.
This is the beauty of our church—whether we’ve got things “together” or not, someone stoops to help—and another is given courage. The high and the mighty descend and the lowly rise.
Yes, we’re a beautiful collection of misfits…
And we are greatly loved by the King of the misfits.
I am a husband, father, pastor, leader & reader. I love God, love people & love life.
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