No.2 Repent
/[Jesus said]…repent, and believe in the good news.
Matthew 3:2, Mark 1:15, Mark 6:12, Luke 24:47
Jesus Christ commands us to evolve, to change our way of being. Visualize a rosebud that opens to become fully itself. It changed so much that it looks like two different flowers!
Likewise, open your mind to the clear and unambiguous way to be Christ-like.
Some of these commands will seem foreign and impossible to appropriate. When that happens, it is proof of how far off we are. Instead of trying to adust Christianity to you, the call is for you to conform to the likeness of Christ, not the likeness of your friends or family, but Christ.
Change, thorough change, will come if you want it to and focus on the Mark, which is Christ. The Church facilitates the change. Stay close to Her.
The reward in this life and eternity cannot be measured in their magnificense.
To become less like yourself and more like Christ is like paying $5 for a mansion in the best neighborhood.
The fragrance of the rose in full bloom delights everyone around it, so too will your new life delight other christs in your orbit. Peace.