One Christian is no Christian (Fr. Greg Boyle)

  For Jesus, the self that needs to die is the one that wants to be separate.  This is the self that recoils from kinship with others and balks at union at every turn.  It is the self that wants it all to remain private and thinks it prefers isolation to connection.  We know that the early Christians believed that one Christian is no Christian.  This larger sense of belonging to each other acknowledges that many are the things that connect us, and those things that divide us are few and no match for our kinship.

--Fr. Greg Boyle,  

Barking to the Choir:  

The Power of Radical Kinship 

Image source:  The Holy Kinship, tempera on oak, ca. 1410-1440, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany, http://www.christianiconography.info/Wikimedia%20Commons/holyKinship.html