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The issue isn't that anyone doesn't need to improve. We all do.
The issue is the focus on one particular area for improvement, largely one that affect other people and is particular problematic for the people to improve in, while ignoring the main areas focused on by Jesus and Francis.
ok, hold on a second.
There are people out there right now who honestly believe that Jesus loves them just as they are.
I'm not kidding, they really are out there, and they really do believe that they don't have to change at all, that they're just fine as they are, that all roads lead to heaven, etc, etc.
those are the people who aren't focused on any area of improvement, and they wonder why the rest of the Christians are so focused on change.
It's nothing new, this kind of thing also happened in the very early church when they went overboard on loving everyone.
As for the main areas that are focused on by Jesus, they run the gamut of human responses mainly because the people of His time were walking around in utter spiritual darkness doing their own thing, and they had been for over 300 years. It didn't get them where God wanted them to go either.
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