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Like a Child

Last updated on: September 8, 2016 at 5:02 am   by J. R. Daniel Kirk

Like a Child 2016-09-08T05:02:43-08:00 J. R. Daniel Kirk

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“Whoever does not receive the basileia of God like a child (slave) shall not enter it” (Mark 10:15). This saying is not an invitation to childlike innocence and naiveté but a challenge to relinquish all claims of power and dominion over others. –Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her, 148

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