Podcast
How to Love Like Jesus
The Bryce Crawford Podcast
Speaker: Bryce Crawford
March 31, 2025 · 16 min
LoveEvangelism & OutreachJesus / ChristologyIdentity in ChristMatthew 22:37–40Matthew 25:31–46James 1:27
Summary
Jesus defines the good life as loving God completely and loving others as yourself. Using Matthew 22:37-40 and the sheep-and-goats passage (Matthew 25), the speaker argues that true Christianity is demonstrated through unconditional, sacrificial love for all people—regardless of their status, sin, or background—because every person bears God's image.
Highlights
What does it mean to love like Jesus? It means to see everyone as Christ. To love like Jesus is to see Christ in people even if they don't know him because his imprint is on their life.
Jesus Christ loved his disciples so much and loved his enemies so well that they didn't know who was going to betray him until he physically passed the bread to Judas.
Just because Jesus sat with sinners and loved them doesn't mean he endorsed their sin. The love of Christ is going to offend people's brains to get to people's hearts.