Watching sports has conditioned us to think about the world in an us vs. them mentality. Politics takes on the same line of thinking -- one side wins while the other loses. The disciples have the same line of thinking here in Luke 9 -- they see someone who isn't in their group, so they assume he's an opponent.
But Jesus is still trying to elevate their thinking about the normal thinking. It's a bigger tent than they can know. It reminds me of when Jesus says that he has other sheep in John 10. It's not what we can see... but that's because we're limited. We don't know what Jesus sees and who Jesus is working through. So let us start with a basis of grace when we're dealing with others, and keep our minds open to the ways that Jesus might be working, even if we don't always understand it. God's ways are not our ways.
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