Love One Another As I Have Loved You
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:34-35
Given at the last supper, minutes after Jesus washed the feet of men who would abandon him, including the one who would betray him. He called it a new commandment.
The old standard was as yourself. The new one is as I have loved you, which raises the bar from fairness to sacrifice. And Jesus attached the family reputation to it: the world will identify his people not by their doctrine or their buildings but by this.
Love someone today past the point where it stops being convenient, the way he loved you. That surplus, the part beyond fairness, is the part the world notices.