Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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Jesus sends his disciples out to do the things he does, which, at this point is stuff that has been blowing their ever-loving minds.
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The vision Jesus offers the disciples, of seeing themselves as laborers in the fields is one we hear with baggage and sincere hope.
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Returning to an earlier point in the gospel of Matthew, we are invited to a moment in which Jesus is doing one radical act after another.
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Jesus pushes back at the impulse to focus our attention on one another, to the people who are good, while forgetting our love for everyone else.
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In the Great Commission, Jesus invites his followers to share the Good News, not convert the world to their ideological certainty.
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It is common to misrepresent doubt as antithetical to a life of faith. But it is essential to it, and therefore, not something we ought to fear.