““The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, far from providing a template for an “us and them” brand of theology, actually provides us with the opposite. For the goats found themselves peering into the windows of the Kingdom from the outside, precisely because of their devotion to this “us and them” mindset. They did not perceive Christ in the poor, wandering stranger, or in the condemned man locked behind prison bars! They could not perceive His presence in the least of the least, and it was this inability that landed them on the “goat list”. They could not believe that Christ had “other sheep” from a Gentile flock, and so treated them with contempt and hostility.””
![“The sheep vs. goats analogy is presumptuous. I define the world in general to be the people who populate it without assignment of an either/or category in presumption of their final and ultimate choice as to Who and Whose Jesus is". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” quote by R. Alan Woods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba3/r-alan-woods-1455_grace-of-god_the-sheep-vs-goats-analogy-is-presumptuo_2713210.jpg)
