“Outside the camp” is probably NOT one of the top 10 places to visit on your next trip to the Holy Land. Yet, that is exactly where we are commanded to go.
“So let us go out to him [Jesus] outside the camp and bear the disgrace he bore,” (Hebrews 13.11-13).
I don’t know the exact location of “outside the camp,” but I hear Him calling me there. I doubt it’s a comfortable, easy place to be. It probably does not smell nice there. I’ll bet the social outcasts of Calcutta were glad Mother Teresa willingly followed Jesus “outside the camp.”
Jesus, deliver me from clean, safe, nice, sterile, pleasant, antiseptic Christianity.
