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But wait! This is not perfect. The story of the good Samaritan turned it all upside down so that the unloveable loveless did the loving. So Christians: wouldn\u2019t it be safe to say, therefore, that to be loved by an atheist or a Muslim or a Buddhist<\/a> is actually the sacred thing, the Divine encounter? Isn\u2019t it possible that to be in fellowship with those outside actually brings us inside with those already inside because we assumed they were outside?<\/p>\n

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