Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
Therefore I take it to mean that it is crucial that we love ourselves, and by extension, each other. On this forum, and on other Christian outlets, I see a whole lotta Christians lacking in love for their fellows, and I expect down deep, for themselves. With repect, believing in "the one He has sent" hinges on believing and acting upon his commandment to LOVE. Belieiving in Him without loving yourself and others, is like looking at food but not eating it.
If we want to win America back, if we want to restore Christian values, we must LOVE and be patient with the poor dumb kids (er ... young adults!) with all the tatoos and the body piercings and liberal brainwashed mindset. Instead what I see among all too many Christians, is anger, something close to hate, for all the "stupid Americans" who voted for leftists.
Not to sound like a hippie, but "love is the answer." Instead of wanting to kill or jail people for having a wrong sense of entitlement and a wrong "belief" that governmnent should fund abortion and punish people for turning away from open homosexuality and such, we must deal with them the same way we would like to be treated, and certainly the way the Almighty dealt with us: with loving patience. That is, if we want to take Christ at his Word.