Don't miss John Kirkley's great piece posted this morning on Walking With Integrity:
The idea that sacrifice precedes mercy is demonic, and I am impatient to reject it. Unity based on sacrifice is not communion -- it is scapegoating. Any community organized on the basis of scapegoating has become on idol, and our response must be an impatient loyalty to the God of mercy.
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