WHERE CHRIST STANDS: THE CROSS AMONG THE LEAST

There are many who look for Jesus in the high places—

in the polished sanctuary,

in the guarded institutions,

in the language of power and control.

But the Gospel speaks differently.

Christ is not hidden behind walls.

He is revealed in wounds.

He stands where the refugee trembles at the border.

He sits where the sick wait without comfort.

He walks where the abandoned are passed by.

He kneels where the poor carry what the world has refused to bear.

This is not metaphor.

This is the location of God.

“For I was a stranger and you welcomed me…

I was sick and you visited me…

Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for Me.”

To follow Christ is not to admire Him from a distance—

it is to meet Him where He has chosen to dwell.

And where has He chosen?

Not with the secure, but with the exposed.

Not with the celebrated, but with the forgotten.

Not with those who build fences,

but with those left outside them.

The cross settles the question.

Jesus did not die inside the system.

He was cast outside the gate.

So if we seek Him only where we are comfortable,

we will miss Him entirely.

If we worship without welcoming,

we deny Him.

If we speak of faith without compassion,

our words become empty noise before God.

The presence of Christ is not theoretical—

it is embodied, visible, and near:

in the marginalized,

in the isolated,

in the abandoned.

To refuse them

is to refuse Him.

To draw near to them

is to stand at the very center of the Kingdom of God.

Repent.

Not into ideas—

but into proximity.

For the living Christ is still pitching His tent

among the least of these,

and the question remains:

Will we go where He is? 

Pastor Steven G. Lee 

St. GMC Corps

April 16, 2026