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If you truly want to be like Jesus, be the one who stays when everyone else walks away. Be the one who forgives when it isn't earned and grace would seem foolish. Be the one who lowers the stones while others are quick to throw them. Be the one who loves even after betrayal – because that is who Jesus is. He stayed with the rejected; He defended the condemned; He forgave the unrepentant. And if we are honest, the call to follow Him has never been about comparison. It has never been about proving our faith by pointing out how others worship differently. Jesus never asked us to measure our testimony against someone else's. He asked us to love. He asked us to walk humbly. If your faith leads you to judge more than to love, pause and ask who you're really following. Because the Jesus of the Gospels didn't build fences – He didn't draw lines; He crossed them and invited everyone to sit with Him.