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In commanding his disciples to love everybody, Jesus is pushing us to reject the thinking we think is natural, obvious, required of us.
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Episode 91 of the Make Saints podcast
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People often concoct incredible scenarios to avoid dealing with the stuff Jesus is trying to say about loving the people around us.
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In the command to love, we are invited into a relationship that is neither weak nor stuck, but full of fidelity and life-affirming grace.
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There is a certain depiction in US culture that the command to love is weak, but it is actually the primary building block of protest.
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The damning truth of it is that so many Christians reject Jesus’s approach to blessing. It’s not a competition, but a co-op.
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