love commandment – Drew Downs

Love as extremely normal—for Easter 6B

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In commanding his disciples love one another, Jesus is setting as normal what we want to believe is optional—and really, occasional.

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We often treat love like an emotion that we merely experience. But Jesus commands us to love, to treat it like a behavior we are to learn.

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When Jesus tells the lawyer that loving God and our neighbor as ourselves is the greatest commandment, are we truly with him?

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We find it easy to excuse retaliation or xenophobia as natural or necessary—an exception. But the rule is love. It is our command.

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7 min read

Episode 25. May 20, 2022

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6 min read

There’s a consistency to our talk of decline. What to blame. How to fix it. Talk and action. Still missing the point.