The scriptural telling begins with how tragically flawed we are by our self-centeredness – Adam blaming Eve, Cain bashing Abel – and how slow we are to realize it – Samson with Delilah, David with Bathsheba…. But one day a man named Jesus appeared out of nowhere who was God-centered rather than self-centered. He overflowed with love even for his enemies who unjustly killed him on a cross.

That love, and the life that embodied it, could not be destroyed by hatred. When he triumphed over death, his followers began to live out of his spirit in ways they could not live in their own strength.