Normally I would expect to be thrown out, but these people actually saw the loving heart of God. No, they saw that God loves His kids and will use them and protect them even if they are in Drag, or homeless. Something is happening in B-ville ya'll. A glimmer of hope that the hate will stop. He told me grown men were crying.
Grace is different though.
Traced back to its theological roots, it includes an element of self-sacrifice, a cost. I have seen Mel demonstrate a graceful spirit time and time to Christians who revile him. Once I asked to see a batch of the hate-mail he gets from Christians, and I could barely make it through the letters. As you probably noticed I totally dodged the Mel White thing . I have some very strong opinions of him that I don't care to verbalize publicly till I finish his books and at least attempt to communicate with him.