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Lost It

 – The Rev. Zach Sasser Revelation 22:1-2, 16-17, 20-21      John 17:20-26 I want to start with a little game today. Don’t worry though, you don’t have to do or say anything out loud. I’m just going to give you some categories, and I want you to think very honestly and sincerely about the first word that comes to mind. I don’t want you to say it. I just want you to think about it. This is between you and God. Christians are ________.   Muslims are ________. Latinos are ________. Black people are _______. White people are ________. Immigrants are ________. God is ________. What you thought of is between you and God, but I will confess to you that my initial responses to these categories of people were a little challenging at first. They were challenging because my brain – and I’ll bet many of yours as well – has had a lot of conditioning through the years that results in biased assumptions of others. You may not have had to sort through those bia...