Bringing Everyone In
Max Lucado
Published on 11/24/2020
People are prone to pecking orders. We love the high horse. They did in the first century. An impassable gulf yawned between Jews and Gentiles in the days of the early church. No Jew would have anything to do with a Gentile—they were unclean. Unless that Jew, of course, was Jesus. Suspicions of a new order began to surface because of his curious conversation with the Canaanite woman. Her daughter was dying, and her prayer was urgent. Yet her ancestry was Gentile. “I was only sent to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel,” Jesus told her. “That’s true,” she … Listen Now