““Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who…emptied himself, taking the form of a servant.” ”
We have a responsibility to our neighbors. When Jesus said, “Love one another as I have loved you,” he made clear that the interests of others should always be put before our own.
That responsibility to our neighbor, and especially “the least of these” among us, comes from our faith, but it is also from our American heritage. From the first colonists who set out together in boats to build a new world to the pioneering wagon trains to more recent moments in history when America’s light has beamed brightest, Americans have always understood that we are stronger when we look out for each other.