The Good Friday Life: We need something more than another moral imperative

Christianity Today

I sometimes wonder if we are starting to let our Republic's moral political discourse shape our private discourse. We see so much moral posturing in the news, we're tempted to address disputes in the family, in the neighborhood, and in the church in the same way… But there is another imperative, that transcends morality and has little to do with obeying commands. It is that publican impulse to confess one's own sin first and the Jesusy desire to embrace the immoral one, even the one who has done us wrong. It is called the Good Friday life...

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