Believers in Christ have always had a tendency to tone down areas of the Word they didn't like, didn't understand, or just flat didn't believe, and elevate others which they were good at or comfortable with, usually in order to feel superior to somebody else in the Body.
Tragic... pathetic... infantile. Yes, on all counts. But natural to man, sin-natural. We seem to be masters at finding new 'theological' methods {and I use that term loosely} for radically redefining the counter-cultural command to "love one another as I have loved you," to live inter-dependent lives of humility, service and sacrifice, rather than the utterly independent lives of loneliness and isolation a capitalist, consumerist culture readily encourages.
Until we're prepared to believe with everything we are that Jesus was serious about summing up the Law and the Prophets with "loving Him... heart, soul, mind and strength" {meaning to the Hebrew mindset the 'totality' of our being} and loving "the other as ourself" we will never experience the glory He's designed for us. With Him or with others.
