This week I posted something online that gained a lot of traction. Here is what I said:
Nothing will ever convince me that the Jesus who healed lepers, fed crowds on hillsides, and welcomed children everyone else tried to send away would look at a sick person without insurance, a hungry kid losing their school lunch, or a family fleeing violence and say they should have tried harder.
My whole point is that the church should be doing those same kinds of things today. Well, like clockwork, some guy I have never met and never spoken to in my life commented on post saying, “He would also believe life is in the womb.” I had to re-read it a few times because I couldn’t figure out what that had anything to do with what I posted. My post didn’t say a single thing about abortion. And to be honest, that guy doesn’t have the slightest clue what I believe about it. He literally saw a pastor talking about Jesus and the least of these and decided he already knew which team I…