When I read the Bible, I read story after story of love, of redemption, of subverting the status quo in order to love more deeply and powerfully. Jesus is a surprising and almost shocking person—one who breaks boundaries and rules in order to love people who haven’t been loved by the world around them. That’s what it means to be a Christian—to model your life after Jesus, the one who embodies love. Jesus did not preserve boundaries and traditions at the expense of humans. He valued humans at the expense of previously held boundaries and traditions. Christlikeness is, at its core, about love—a
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