There are crimes against the law of the land, misdemeanors and felonies, and civil lawsuits. Are there other types of crime? You won’t be arrested and prosecuted for spiritual crimes, but do such things exist? In some schools of theology anything sinful would qualify, and you have a way to obtain forgiveness for your sins. What about interfering with the spiritual development of someone else; causing one of these little ones to stumble? What about those for whom the way of truth is evil spoken of? For offenses must come, but woe to him by whom the offense comes.

Would you say that your life is characterized by passion? Would this make you normal or abnormal? Do you find that most people go through life going through the motions, and that you can go through life and support yourself without an inner fire? But isn’t there an inner longing for a fully engaged life, for a cause that you are so committed to that it consumes you? How many people do you know like that? Do you admire them? Are you one of them? Do you live your life with a sense of destiny? Are you listening to your soul to find out what it is asking of you? Are you prepared to respond?

I denounced the Pharisees in my generation. Do you know anything about Pharisees other than what you read in the gospels? They were a relatively short-lived Jewish sect that took their spirituality seriously and applied it to all aspects of life. Is this last part true of you as well? What characteristics did the Pharisees have that I objected to? Even though no one goes by that title today, has anyone taken on the same characteristics to become the functional equivalent by another name? Who do you think I would identify in your current generation to criticize for hypocrisy?

I said that foxes had holes and birds had nests, but the Son of Man had nowhere to lay his head. This was my way of saying that I was homeless, not having even the same degree of secure shelter that the animals had. Do you see anything in the Bible that attaches me to a fixed address? I wandered without property, being a guest in other people’s homes, and went from a manger to a borrowed grave. What is your view of those with no means today? Do you see them as being rich in faith? Do you encourage them to rejoice because the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs?