The context in which we live as apprentices of Jesus is in a new Family. In our world, we have torn and corrupted images of family, yet what is offered to us through Jesus is a new Family, with a perfect Father, and a Spirit that unifies and unites us. In this new, diverse, multi-ethnic Family, we learn more fully what Jesus is like, we get to more completely love him, and we learn more intimately what it means to love one another.