We're not there to serve the church. The church is there to serve the people of God. So as a sister, I take the message of the gospel â?? the loving and reconciling message of Jesus, inclusivity message of Jesus â?? and then recognize that we live in a world that is so diverse and complex.
I work in a jail part time as a nurse. One time I had a patient â?? I'm an HIV counselor â?? and [went to] talk with her about her results, thank God they were negative. But she stood up and she pointed her hand at me in the jail in her unit and said "I know who you are and I know what you believe."
And I sat down quietly with her and said, "Do you know I believe in you? And I believe that your life is so hard." You know, because she was having sex for drugs. And it was one of these moments where she started crying.
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