The Rev. Alissa Newton text: Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Matthew 5:21-37

"If all I have to do is not kill you, well I can do that and go on my way, do what I need to do. But if what I'm actually charged with is loving you, taking care of you, being in touch with this baseline reality that we belong to each other and that is how we enter into relationship with God? Then suddenly just not killing you doesn't seem like I'm fulfilling the assignment, does it?"