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Hotel Rwanda: The Fast God Chooses (Isaiah 58:6-7)

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In Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina shelters over 1,200 Tutsi refugees in his hotel during the genocide. He bribes, bluffs, and bargains with killers to keep them alive. "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness... to let the oppressed go free?" Isaiah describes true religion not as ritual but as rescue. Paul wasn't fasting in a monastery; he was breaking bread with the hunted, sharing his roof with the homeless. The world's religions were largely silent during the genocide. Paul's hotel became a church—the only kind of church Isaiah would recognize.

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Isaiah 58:6-7Micah 6:8James 1:27

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