"'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!'" Matthew 23:37 (NRSV)
What does this mean?
God is saying that His desire is to gather His children to Him with the love of a mother hen.
But those who run His Church are not willing.
They insist on the religion of fear and punishment.
And they slander and attack the messengers God sends to them.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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