What would you do if this week Nick Griffin came to your church?

How would people react? (Supposing they knew who he was and what he believes.)

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Let me ask some questions…

Do we believe that God requires us to change before we can be accepted by him? Do we believe that people must change themselves before they could be welcomed into the church? Really?

Really?

There are roughly one million people in the UK who voted for the BNP. Could they or would they or do they come to your church?

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Christ loved wife-beaters, homophobes, heterosexuals, the religious, racists, the A* star student, rapists, the good boys and girls, the drugged up, the environmentalist, liars, the down-trodden, the jihadist, idolaters, drunks, paedophiles, the envious, the depressed, the sexually immoral, the self-righteous and died for them. He did this for us when this was who we were and what our lives were defined by, when we were still going our own way, doing our own thing: “God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved”. He didn’t leave us in our wrong-doing (or in our making good things ultimate) for “such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”

He sought me out when in every sense I was repellent and odious. Will we welcome those God welcomes and see change follow as it has in our own lives?