I mean from my memory I think you pretty much nailed it. It’s funny, when I was growing up in church, the way they preached about these passages made me think they were very difficult- like so difficult it might actually be better to just focus on some of the other things the Bible says you should do. Now that I’m an adult I see these are actually the easiest and the most natural, it’s just the conservative society I was in made it seem like giving freely to others would be impossible. Or at least extremely complicated.
“Lord, when did we see you naked, hungry, sick, and imprisoned?” “So as you have done for the least of all, so you have done to me.”
“Who will condemn this woman with us?” “Should I condemn you all? Now go, and sin no more.”
“If your right hand causes you to sin, it is better to cut it off than to be cast into the flames.”
“Hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs: beautiful and clean outside and rotting inside.”
“You shall know them by their fruits.”
“All of the law hangs upon two commandments: to love God with all your soul, and your neighbor as yourself.”
“Let they who pray loudly in public do so: truly they have received their reward.”
“You pile heavy burdens upon others, but will not help.”
They miss a LOT of what Jesus had to say, and this is all from memory (and so probably jumbled, and definitely not direct quotes).
I mean from my memory I think you pretty much nailed it. It’s funny, when I was growing up in church, the way they preached about these passages made me think they were very difficult- like so difficult it might actually be better to just focus on some of the other things the Bible says you should do. Now that I’m an adult I see these are actually the easiest and the most natural, it’s just the conservative society I was in made it seem like giving freely to others would be impossible. Or at least extremely complicated.