Titus had been tasked with establishing leadership in newly formed churches. These weren’t long-established communities with polished spiritual resumes. These were brand-new believers—people still learning what it meant to follow Christ in a culture that didn’t exactly encourage holiness.

Imagine what would happen if we rediscovered this kind of love—not just as an idea, but as a way of life. Not just in moments of sentimentality, but in the everyday grind of life. In traffic. At the dinner table. With co-workers. With our enemies.

Imagine if the Church—your church, my church—was so marked by this kind of agápē that the world had to take notice again.

I didn’t become Catholic by throwing away my past—I became Catholic by stepping into the fullness of the Christian story. These Protestant gifts haven’t lost their value. They’ve been deepened, reoriented, and completed in ways I never expected.