think loving our enemies might be too central to the Gospel—too close to the heart of Jesus—for it to wait until we mean it. I don’t mean it. I didn’t mean it when I shook Pirate Christian’s hand. And my heart, that very place where I found the impulse that I am to love my neighbor and hate my enemy, isn’t going to purify itself any time soon. So if God is waiting for that same heart to feel nice, loving, warm, pink, fuzzy things about someone who is my enemy, well, I think God might be waiting a while. So I wondered if maybe the prayer part of the “love your enemies and pray for those who
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