This morning Pastor Marilyn preached on Luke 15′s story of the widow who searched her home top and bottom for a lost coin. Marilyn said a phrase that caught my ear: The coin had much more potential found, than it did when it was lost. As a lost coin it had possibilities to help the widow. But it needed to be found for it to reach its full potential.

This is one of the best arguments I can think of for why we are called to  tell people about Christ’s power to reconcile us with God. Because it’s only through that reconciliation that a friend, a family member, a co-worker, the desperate young woman with the meth-induced twitch on the street, the neighbor who just got out of jail, you name it….it’s only through Christ’s sacrifice that they can be what they were built to do and to be.

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