Jesus didn’t add footnotes to “love your neighbor.” He didn’t say unless they vote differently, think differently, live differently, or believe differently. He simply lived it.
Loving your neighbor doesn’t mean:
agreeing with everything they believe compromising biblical truth staying silent about sin or justice
It does mean:
treating people with dignity because they bear God’s image speaking truth with grace, not contempt refusing to let politics become our identity over Christ
Christ was the perfect example. He ate with sinners, spoke with Samaritans, touched lepers, confronted hypocrisy, and still never bent the truth. He didn’t win people by shaming them—He won them by loving them without affirming what was destroying them.
That’s especially important now, when political identity is trying to replace spiritual identity. As believers, our allegiance is not left or right—it’s upward.
“By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35)
If the church loses love, we lose credibility.
If we lose truth, we lose power.
Christ calls us to hold both—without apology.
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