Jesus’s command to love our neighbors as we love ourselves isn’t a call to raise our self-esteem. It’s a charge to seek others’ good in the same way we seek our own.

Can we spend too much time celebrating the fact that we are righteous before God, so we think we need not obey him today?

Our perceptions of race relations in the church are of some importance. God’s vision for where race relations are heading is of infinite importance.