The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.