There are some passages that leave me with a haunting feeling every time I come across them. Today, I read this bit in Matthew 25. I’m going to post it here without much comment, except to say that this is a text that I find seriously challenging. It just challenges everything about what we’re trying to do as churches, as disciples of the Jesus who could say such a thing.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, sick and you cared for me, in prison and you came to me. Then the righteous answered him, saying “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, thirsty and give you to drink? Or when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, naked and clothe you, when did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?” And the king will answer and say to them, “Truly I tell you, when ever you did these things to the least of these my brothers, you did them to me.”
