Sunday’s Lectionary includes the part in Acts where Peter tells the religious authorities that Jesus, the stone that the builders rejected, has turned out to be the ‘cornerstone’ of God’s hopes for saving the human race. Rejection is a common human experience, and sometimes there is good reason why a certain career path or life partner may not be for you. But rejection (as thousands of aspiring novelists will tell you) is not always the end. Sometimes what we have is so different, yet so important, that we have to stick with it. Jesus was rejected, and that may seem strange to a Christian whose faith is celebrated by millions of people in big, expensive buildings. But even in the churches, those who call Christians back to the core of the radically new life of following Jesus may experience that feeling of rejection and being an outsider.
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