How Wide Is Your Circle of Faith?
Mark 7:24-30
Illustration
by Philip W. McLarty

There's a little scene in the Broadway musical, Shenandoah, in which this older mountain couple sit down to eat with their son and daughter-in-law.  Before they break bread together, the father offers this prayer:

"Lord, bless me and my wife,
John and his wife;
us four, no more.  Amen."

That's an expression of faith, all right, but it's not very inclusive.  Its boundaries are pretty restricted.  How wide is your circle of faith?

The Boundaries of the Kingdom, by Philip W. McLarty