Terry MacArthur, video, piano, vocal
An old Sunday school song still carries an important tenet of Christianity: the universality of the love of Jesus. No one is left outside the grace of God. Allusions to stories from the Gospels illustrate this basic idea ie, the blessing of the children in Mark 10:13–16, the healing of the Canaanite women’s daughter, Matthew 15:21–28, and parable of the lost sheep, Luke 15:3–7. When I grew up in church, we heard of missionaries caring for children in Africa. We were told of doctors healing children in India because Christ cared for them. If Jesus could love children from regions and cultures totally different from mine, then surely, Jesus could love me as well. In all the divisions we confront, we seem to be forgetting this basic affirmation: Jesus loves not only for those like me, but also for those I don’t understand, or don’t even like.