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Direct Answer Based on Dean Taylor’s teaching, Jesus’ commands about practical mercy and inner devotion would most clearly reshape church life—because the groups he highlights built community structures for the poor and pursued real heart-level relationship with Christ. We would have to stop treating obedience as optional theory and start expecting it to “come out” in concrete practices.

Support from Transcript:

• Dean says if we use Scripture “as a blueprint” and truly believe Jesus meant His words, it “comes out” in lived forms, not merely “an idea.”
• He connects Matthew 25 directly to the Bécaires/Begins’ poor care: they created places “where they would help the poor of their area.”
• In Capito’s story, the “modern devotion” stresses inward reality: rites are “empty if the heart…be not engaged,” and “True spirituality is within us.”
• The Brethren of the Common Life organized life around work, spiritual exercises, education, and meetings with interactive questions and answers—suggesting a Jesus-shaped communal pattern.
• Dean critiques “plain, mediocre Christianity” that won’t “produce…superlative examples,” implying that literal obedience would change expectations.