of three dimensions of a life of faithfulness, each of which depends on and is reinforced by the other two. To love kindness (hesed) means to enter into relationships of abiding solidarity. It means to make commitments and to keep commitments. And so the questions come: With whom? And in what way? The New Testament struggles with the question of the limits of solidarity. In Luke 10:29, the neighbor question is the overriding question for the community, as it still is. And in what way to do kindness?
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