See others as Jesus sees them

When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment is, he responded with absolute clarity: Love. Love is the greatest command. He said, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and

The second half of thinking like Jesus is to start thinking maturely, which focuses on others, not yourself. In his great chapter on what real love is, Paul concluded that thinking of others is the mark of maturity: “When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways

Humility says, I know I have blind spots. Can you help me see? Imagine for a moment if our relationships were characterized in this way?

Why did the disciples follow Jesus? It’s simple: He loved them. The Gospels tell us, “When Christ saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them.” Men and women and youth and children are all drawn to a person who loves them. What response do people evoke in you? Do they bother you? Challenge you? Do you like people, or do they threaten

Great leaders don’t have time to think about themselves because they’re too busy scheming ways to love other people and lift them up. Who can you do this for today? Blow their minds. Give them your office, maybe even your car. It’ll sound crazy right up until you do it.

I think the difference in my life came when I realized, after reading those Gospels, that Jesus didn’t just love me out of principle; He didn’t just love me because it was the right thing to do. Rather, there was something inside me that caused Him to love me. I think I realized that if I walked up to His campfire, He would ask me to sit down, and

Are you that kind of person? Do you honor and give preference to others? It’s amazing how much grace there is to go around when people, from the heart, honestly long for the success of others more than their own. It’s counterintuitive and so unlike the world’s values, but it is refreshing and invigorating when you experience it in relationships.

Why do people in the world think of masses (of people) and not as one (body)?” I knew the answer to that question. Jesus looked at me as if I was the only person in the world and the only one who mattered to Him. That is exactly how I understood that we are to see one another—as if the other person is the most important person in the world to God.

Since Christ is our model for personal ministry, we too want to understand people so that we can serve him in their lives. We too must be committed to entering their worlds. We can begin by taking the time to ask good questions and listen well. Our hope is that others would seek us out and share more of their true struggles, so that they may find,