When you take the Way of Jesus seriously, you encounter resistance. Jesus calls us to love our enemies, but society kills our enemies. Jesus calls us to Jubilee, but ours is a nation of debt. Jesus calls us to befriend the ostracized, but ours is a society of alienation and division. Jesus challenges us to name spiritual forces of oppression, but ours is a civilization that numbs us expertly with the opiates of entertainment and material goods. Following Jesus is a way of resistance.
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