What if the greatest test of being is a person of faith is how we live out the question “Who is my neighbor?”
Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Not just to love our neighbor but to love ‘as ourselves’. These two words change it all. To love our neighbor as ourselves means that we cannot want anything for our neighbor that we do not want for others. We must broaden our definition of who is my neighbor and we must love in a different way. Could you pass the neighbor challenge?
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