"I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust."
Loving your enemies in the abstract is easy. How do you love them concretely?
What is the purpose of praying for those who persecute you?
How exactly does loving your enemies and praying for your persecutors make you a child of God?
Why does the fact that the sun shines on the just and unjust make praying for the unjust necessary?
"For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers and sisters only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
What reward is there for us in returning love for love if sinners do the same?
In what way is Jesus calling us to be "unusual"?
How can we be perfect as the Father is perfect? He is God; we are His creatures.
Concretely, by what means is Jesus teaching us to be perfect as the Father is perfect?
What distracts us from this path?
In what way do you imitate the pagans/tax collectors rather than the Father?
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