Loving Your Annoying Family

Loving Your Annoying Family

“Church shouldn’t be a place where we go to hang out exclusively with our friends. Of course we will do that, but we also need to open our horizons to those other people sitting in our circle.

We need to switch on our ‘family radar’ to locate those who are struggling, feeling like an outsider, lost, awkward. They may well be annoying—after all, nobody is as funny as we are, and they haven’t memorized our plans for the day—but that isn’t the point.”

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