“Many others give up their boundaries before they have them, always seeking their identity in another group, experience, possession, or person. Beliefs like, “She will make me happy,” or “He will take away my loneliness,” or “This group will make me feel like I belong” become a substitute for doing the hard work of growing up. It is much easier to belong to a group than it is to know that you belong to God. Those who firm up their own edges and identity too quickly without finding their center in God and in themselves will normally be the enemies of ecumenism, forgiveness, vulnerability, and basic human dialogue. Their identity is too insecure to allow any movement in or out and their “Christ” tends to be very small, tribal, and “just like them.””

–Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs (Crossroad Publishing, 2003), p. 22

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  1. This is the actual truth of who Christ is. “For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.”
    ‭‭Colossians‬ ‭1‬:‭19‬-‭20‬ ‭NIV‬‬
    https://bible.com/bible/111/col.1.19-20.NIV