The Christ-transformed life is a life of loving what Jesus loves. Paul recognizes that loving God and loving our neighbor (Matt. 22:37-39) naturally and necessarily creates relationships and community life. Living with that kind of love draws us together and lines our lives up with people who share the same heart as Jesus, loving the same things as Jesus and, therefore, loving the same things as all the people of Jesus. Love brings us into community together. The world's way is very different, and the world is always trying to get us to comform to its ways. The opposite of love--Christ's ways--is self-centeredness. Self-centeredness is a form of pride, arrogance, narcissism. This self-centered life most often expresses itself in the form of competition, declaring "I'm better, more important, more valuable than you." Love calls us to give up that kind of competition in the humility and other-centeredness of love. Produced on May 21, 2020

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