A Drink of Water

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Today’s message, as I heard it. “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” He paced the platform, took a drink of water, and said:

Mr. Rogers may have loved you just the way you are, but the righteous God does not.  You would like to think he does, but . . . not really.  He loves what he wants you to become.  Perfect as he is perfect.  Or at least! − righteous as he is righteous. Southern, “Baptist,” vested, armed. “Republican.” Patriotic.  Morally narrow enough to steal through the eye of a needle.  For, strait is the gate and narrow is the way.  Don’t think they’re not.

I’m not saying he said this; I’m saying this is what I heard.  It reminded me of e e cummings’ “next to of course god america i.”  So . . . draw your own conclusions.
          I’m not the preacher, so you may want to turn your volume up a bit for this one.

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