The Words of Jesus #13

Man is a territorial creature. I don’t mean that purely in a geographical sense, either. Man is socially territorial—we expect people to stay in their class or in their race. Man is even territorial in an ideological sense. We put together belief systems—think of churches with all of their doctrines and creeds—that are exclusionary. They accept all people who believe exactly what we believe and exclude everyone else.Part of this, I think, comes from a very natural desire to feel special. No one wants to be ordinary—just a part of the herd. We want to know that there is