In light of everyone’s generosity lately, this quote from Leslie Newbigin seemed appropriate to share when I read it on Wednesday.

Jesus is both totally compassionate and totally uncompromising about what is involved in coming to the fullness of life. There can be no compromise with false ideas about what it is that makes for fullness of life. To give bread to the hungry is an action of divine compassion and as such a sign of that which alone can satisfy the infinite desires and needs of the human spirit. If the sign is confused with that which it signifies, the gift of life is forfeited. In serving human need, Jesus remains master. The servant who washes the feet of his disciples is their master and lord, and it is in serving that he exercises his lordship (John 12:12-14).

From The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, page 226.