Last fall, Woolf wrote an editorial for Sojourners in which he said, “If you want to understand who God is, then I think one of the foundational themes is the experience of migration.”
“In election season, we sometimes ask whether God is a Democrat or a Republican, but the truth is more obvious: God is an immigrant,” Woolf wrote.
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“For Christians, the truth is quite simple: God is not vaguely in solidarity with the vulnerable, but actually is the vulnerable,” Woolf went on to say. “Matthew 25 insists that whatever we do, or do not do, for the sake of those who are experiencing hardship, we do the same for Jesus.”
“An underappreciated aspect of that chapter is that we are offered a direct line to God,” he added. “I would go as far to suggest that this immediate access is not available through Christian worship or even prayer, but through our treatment of those whom society has disregarded.”
Of Lake Street Church’s nativity scene this year, Woolf said, “Christians have to look at the birth story—not just a sort of a rosy sort of tale that we can just read in Scripture—but actually sort of wrestle with its coming into being in context.”
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“We don’t speak for all Christians, but we certainly speak for a certain strand of community that’s trying to take that message and say, ‘If Jesus were born in America right now, what would this nativity set look like?’” Woolf said.
