As we seek to present the love of our Savior to a love-starved world, we tend to rely on a few great figures to do the job. The big front-runner is the model of that lost world. The bigger the name, the bigger the target. Detractors of our faith act so gleefully shocked when a prominent minister falls in sin. But such failures only go to show what Christians have always said: we are sinners saved by a gracious God. Nothing will stop that grace. While the famous may stumble in the open, the rest of us stumble across the battlefield with the love of God driving us on. We are a multitude of flawed saints storming the gates of hell, and the gates of hell will not prevail against us. The walls of condemnation will fall under a trillion blows of holy kindness. Every single believer is important in the loving efforts of Jesus.
For you Tolkien fans: Mordor is attracted to the powerful king at it's borders, but it is the weak and lonely hobbit who slips through to the cracks of doom with the victory.
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