James Talarico

Love for our enemies, the hardest love to achieve.

And so what J.D.

Vance is describing is the culture that we already live in.

That's the world.

And we Christians are called to see beyond the world.

And that's to a divine love, a God-like love.

Because, you know, as scripture says, the rains and the sun fall on the righteous and the unrighteous alike.

God loves all of us, no matter what we've done, no matter how good or how bad we are.

And we as Christians are called to have that divine agape love for every person equally.

And that's hard to do.

I feel like I love my family more than I love other families.

I'm guilty of that.

I think we all are.

But the gospel is pushing us to move beyond that and to have the same love for a child on the other side of the world that we have for our child.

And it's almost impossible to do that, but it is what we are called to do.

Yes.

Scripture says you can't love God and hate other people.

That's in 1 John.

You can't love God and abuse the immigrant.

You can't love God and oppress the poor.