When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

You cannot have Jesus' rescue without accepting His rule.

This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.