A New Itinerary
What does it mean today for a 21st century Christian to take the
road less traveled? I'm glad you asked, because to take the road
less traveled means to confront issues rather than to avoid them.
To take the road less traveled means to transform conventional
expectations and challenge the status quo. To take the road less
traveled means to break down barriers by crossing boundaries and
building bridges. To take the road less traveled is to dare to
venture into territory that everyone else would conveniently avoid.
To take the road less traveled is to risk breaking all of the rules.
To take the road less traveled is to take the challenge of rising
above individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity.

To take the road less traveled means that in a world of religious,
racial, social and human intolerance, technological astuteness and
capitalistic enterprises, that the Christian virtues of love, mercy,
and forgiveness must stand at the center of our lives. To take the
road less traveled is to have the moral courage to stand up and
speak up and protest wherever injustice is found. To take the road
less traveled is to inject a new dimension of love into the veins
of society. To take the road less traveled is to permit the love
and grace of God to work in the lives and the hearts of humanity.
To take the road less traveled is to rise to love on the Agape
level; we love humanity not because we like them, not because they
look like us, not because their attitudes and ways appeal to us,
but because God loves us.

--from the sermon "A Different Way"
by the Rev. Gina Stewart

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