Left Untried
Brush-off or opportunity?
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
— Matthew 22:37-40
— Matthew 22:37-40
Theoretical, academic, ethereal, cerebral – words some retreat into when given broad, all-encompassing instructions. What if these were treated as down-to-earth and practical? What might the Church be like? Jesus' ministry was a practical working-out of these commands. Might it be that they seem impractical to us only because they've been left untried?