Pastor John Van Sloten of Marda Loop presents part 5 of our series on The Beatitudes from Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”  Pastor John unpacks these words using the powerful example of Father Fagba, a Catholic priest in the Central African Republic.  We live in an all too merciless world.  When we own our own fallibilities and take the right actions in love, there is a better chance to be more merciful with each other.  Can we be in the right relationship with God when we are not in the right relationship with his people?  It is one thing to be morally tough but quite another to be mercifully soft in that toughness.