The Glory of the Church Is When She Lays Aside Her Respectability and Dignity

The glory of the church is when she lays aside her respectability and dignity to gather together the outcasts. The prodigal, not the respectable son, the good samaritan, not the good jew. Lazarus, not the rich man, the tax collector,. Not the pharisee. There's so many ways that people can be outcasts - economic outcasts, social outcasts, that can be religious outcasts. But she sets aside herrespectability and her dignity and considers it her glory to gather them in.