“Do as the Master commands, “Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.” (Luke 14:21)
Bring them starving. Bring them bleeding and broken. Drag them into the banquet, wretched and raggedy as they are. Sit them at the table, though they mourn and weep, necks bent and heads hung low.
Go in love. Go with love. Go because of love. How else will they know our good God? How else will we?
“By this all me will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35
Claudia Mair Burney, in the epilogue to The Furious Longing of God by Brennan Manning (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2009) 136.