Typical religions call upon us to do good and be good. But Christ calls on us to “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.” That’s another line that keeps the pastors busy with explanations. But the Greek word translated as perfect here is τέλειοι: be complete, fulfill your telos, your purpose, as God fulfills his. Live completely into what God made you to be. The Greek word for sin, hamartia, means to miss that target, to miss your telos.
