The apostle Paul talks about imitating Christ for good reason.20 In Jesus we see someone who is grounded in his belovedness and who sees belovedness in all others. Jesus clearly shows us that God is love,21 and through his life and teachings, we are called as children of God into that same way of love. But in the modern-day church, the idea of being “just like Jesus”22 has often been taken to mean we should become less like our unique selves, as though there were something inherently wrong with the way God created us.
