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While we as people of  God are certainly called to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, that whole we're blessed to be a blessing thing can still be kind of dangerous. It can be dangerous when we self-importantly place ourselves above the world, waiting to descend on those below so we can be the blessing they've been waiting for, like it or not.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

While we as people of  God are certainly called to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, that whole we're blessed to be a blessing thing can still be kind of dangerous. It can be dangerous when we self-importantly place ourselves above the world, waiting to descend on those below so we can be the blessing they've been waiting for, like it or not.

Tags: self righteousness, service

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About Nadia Bolz-Weber

Nadia Bolz-Weber (born April 22, 1969) is an American author, Lutheran minister and public theologian. She served as the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Denver, Colorado, until July 8, 2018.
Bolz-Weber is known for her unusual approach to reaching others through her church. She has produced work in the church that scholar and writer Diana Butler Bass considers part of "a new Reformation".