Following Jesus means to drop our agenda and pick his up. In life it is great to have drive and dreams but they must be rooted in furthering of the Kingdom. When it comes to discrimination and issues like this it seems we will compromise at all costs to keep the church setting comfortable. Its easy to minister and love a community of people who are like you. The problem is we were never called to minister to the people similar to us. We were called to minister to all and to love our enemies. When we drop whatever drive we have to be recognized or comfy and begin to recognize the humanity of others and the need for all to be loved it certainly shifts the paradigm. I long for the day that ministers want to minister at all costs to the people No one else wants to love or be there for. I am certainly in no way there yet but as of late Ive began to understand that I would LOVE to go to africa or romania but how much do I want to be put near the meth labs of hawley, or spend time on cedar street near high levels of gang activity? Maybe somewhere along the journey we liked Jesus enough to claim him but haven't quite submitted our lives and allowed him to claim us and truly become his, myself included. As believers Jesus has to be given Lordship in our lives and from that grows humble action. WE WERE MADE FOR GOD BY GOD AND EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW AND TONGUE CONFESS THAT HE IS LORD. Why not now?