….who’s the biggest heretic of them all?

I saw this article by Greg Boyd the other day, and it’s been on my mind ever since.  In it Boyd asks the relatively simple, but profound question:

If love is to be placed above all else, if everything else is to be considered worthless apart from love and if everything hangs on fulfilling this one law, how can we avoid the conclusion that refusing to love even our enemies is the worst heresy imaginable?

If the answer to this question is yes, than it seems that there are for more heretics in the Church than we could imagine.  It’s easy to point to an article like this and take a self-righteous stance of the Pharisees saying, “Thank God I’m not as unloving as those people”.  I don’t think it’s hard, once we take a little time, to think of a few people who we consider our enemies.  Are we truly loving them?  Do we serve them?

Personally, I know I struggle with even trying to not wish harm or hardship on people I have issues with.  When I am wronged, my first thought is not to bless that person, but to get even with them.  The fact of the matter is that I am probably a bigger heretic than some may already think I am.

Just some food for thought…