Now, this radical centering in God does not leave us unchanged. It transforms us, and this leads us to the second focal point of what it means to follow Jesus, what it means to take Jesus seriously. In a single sentence, it means compassion in the world of the everyday. Slightly more fully, it means a life of compassion and a passion for justice. I need both of these words, “compassion” and “justice,” for compassion without justice easily gets individualized or sentimentalized, and justice without compassion easily sounds like politics.
