I love that while trying to trap Jesus, the religious leaders of the day fed right into these important words of Jesus: the meaning of life. The “why we’re here” teaching! Perhaps you’re thinking, “Yeah, He’s kind of an authority on that.”


In His answer to that question, Jesus outlined what the life of a person following after Him is all about. It’s about loving God, loving people, and – as my friend Bob says – “doing stuff.” The kind of love Jesus calls us to is an active, engaging, enduring, sacrificial, all-in kind of love. It isn’t a notional love. It’s practical. It dives deep into the lives of the people we often would want to keep ourselves clean from.


Jesus went to the synagogues and had His small group, sure. But throughout His ministry, He spent more and more time with the types of people so many of us have little to do with. And if we think about it, we realize that we ourselves are the very kinds of sinful people Jesus came for in His active, engaging, enduring, sacrificial, “all-in” love.