engage rather than avoid

Love people who creep you out. Because you’re one of them. The people I’ve been spending my whole life avoiding were the ones that Jesus spent his whole life engaging in. So, where I’ve just been polite and distant with people, I think what is changing in me … is to say draw a little bit closer to them.

Bob Goff, Becoming An Authentic Leader,
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast, episode 48.