Who is the most valuable and who can we discount as unimportant?
Who is loved by God and who is it okay for us to hate?
That guy over there has always been a jerk to me, so it's okay for me to look down on him, right?
This woman has caused a lot of evil to be done over the years. It's okay for me to distain her actions and consign her to the pits of hell, isn't it?
This week we start to look at Matthew chapter 18, which tells us exactly how Jesus would answer all of these questions.
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