understanding
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With following Jesus, the point is not to understand or to win, but to understand Jesus. To get what he is about and wants for us.
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The Trinity is a famously difficult concept for people to get. But that is only because we make it way harder on ourselves to begin with.
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We like to make things simple. Either/ or. Us against Them. But community is full of neighbors, none of whom fully think alike.
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We understand that the so-called culture war is rooted in identity. But at the heart of both is the sense of defining what is common.
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We all recognize the problem with literal interpretations. But there is another kind of literalism that fails in exactly the same way.
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As Jesus offers his first Passion prediction, he does so knowing that the disciples are afraid to know what it is that they already know.