If Christ-followers are in this world to bring compassion, mercy, and justice, we need to have God's love flowing through us and being expressed across lines of race, ethnicity, gender—namely, we need be living the beloved life that is made possible through Jesus Christ. We need to be the means through which God's love becomes real to the unbelieving. This message expands on what it means to live that beloved life, not in isolation, but in the context of the beloved church which then expands to beloved community—the kingdom of God here on earth.