By Kyle Childress Twice a year for six years, I’d leave home early on a Thursday morning and drive four and a half hours to Austin to meet a small group of fellow pastors.
It is true that we are broken. And that makes things messy. But brokenness is only part of the journey. The trap we often fall into is, as Bryan Stevenson puts it, our “comfort level with reducing people to their worst act and acting in very extreme, harsh, punitive ways.” We are not the worst thing we have ever done.