[ConservativeDude]

"but the main and most difficult message Jesus brought to this world was to love people"

While this is true, this statement is almost universally misunderstood today. Jesus also said that he came to divide (Luke 12:51). He did not come to bring peace or to unite, or to celebrate diversity, or to excuse alternative lifestyles.

He came to live a flawless and sinless life, and die and rise again for sinners like me, deserving of hell, but spared from it by God's grace and nothing else.

Accordingly, our responsibility is to preach the truth. In love, yes, at all times. But I think statements like "Jesus just wants us to love one another" in an era of cheap sentimentality, tolerance [a form of indifference, incidentally] and moral relativism, statements like that should be used sparingly and only with great care.

In Brothers Karamaszov, Dostoyevsky has a great line: "love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams". That is how I think of the love of Christ. It's not as pleasant as we like to think.

[Theodore R.]

"but the main and most difficult message Jesus brought to this world was to love people"

Reese is no theologian. I would imagine that he got the preceding line from the part of Scripture where it speaks of a "man laying down his life for his friends."