In essence, what Jesus imparted to his disciples was that they must strive for true justice on earth as in heaven, as their righteous service to God; that they must honor God by doing indiscriminate justice, by lifting up “the least of these” on the altar of God’s justice and mercy; that they must set into motion a revolution of love and holistic spirituality that demonstrates love for God by treating the needs of even the least of God’s children as holy.

-Obery M Hendericks, Jr.
excerpt from The Politics of Jesus.

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