While I am working on preaching through Hebrews for the next six weeks, I was at a pericope study this week and we turned our attention to the gospel text for Sunday. As I read the text, I wondered aloud how many people would place special emphasis on this one line of the gospel text. "And Jesus, looking at him, LOVED HIM, and said, 'You lack one thing...'" and then go off during the sermon that no matter what Jesus loved him That before giving him one more thing to do, Jesus loved the rich young man implicitly allowing us to continue in our overly consumptive lifestyle because after all... Jesus loves us too.
