Good Christians are many, if it weren't for all those people: the whiners, the manipulators, the crooks, the liars, the heretics, the greedy. But Christ put up with all of them and remained sinless. The Bible recounts disciple buffoonery and selfishness, yet Christ communed with them, loved them, confided in them–chose them. Maybe the disciples were incredibly annoying individuals that no one else wanted to hang out with, yet Christ chose them to show a person can hang out with the most troubling personalities without lapsing into impatience, despair, arrogance, or other sinful state of mind.
(My biggest question: Am I more like the Christ-like figure that hangs out with the annoying individuals, or am I more like the annoying individuals?)
