AMBASSADORS FOR HELL

Luke 17:1-2 (NRSV) - Jesus said to his disciples, "Occasions for stumbling are bound to come, but woe to anyone by whom they come! 2 It would be better for you if a millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea than for you to cause one of these little ones to stumble."

Most people know that life cannot be lived in a safe box,
and on the pilgrimage of faith there will be stumbling blocks.
“But woe to those who put them there!” said Jesus.  “It would be
better if they were bound with weights and cast into the sea,
than that they should cause any followers of mine to sin.”
To cause someone to stumble thus may cause God more chagrin
than being one who stumbles, as we all have surely been.
Just think of all the sordid types whom Christ indicts herein ---
drug dealers and pornographers, and film producers who
make violence and immorality appealing, too.
But more, these words of Jesus do indict all those as well
who by their bad example are ambassadors for hell.