How much love there isn’t in this world is far more amazing than how much love there is.
Imagine if all the churches got together and came up with a giant/overshadowing mission statement. “Our goal is to SHOW you LOVE!” Talk about a unifying and Biblical concept.
1Corinthians 13: 11-12
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
I’ve been in a church with a great preacher, but who happened to have a real problem with loving people.
I’ve been in a church desperate to love, but hindered from that goal by the “straw-man goals” set up by leadership.
I’ve been in a church so obsessed with presentation and “feeling” that they fall into the trap of believing they are loving, when really they are just imitating.
I’ve been in a church where the love was so abundant that no one knew what they had and then in a flash it was gone.
I’ve been in a church where the love is there, ready, apparent, but sometimes just left lying on the table due to a lack of leadership.
I’ve been in a church where the love is so overwhelming that it drowns out all other concerns, to the point that those pouring out the love accidentally begin to pour out conditions with their love and don’t even realize it.
Imagine if all the churches got together and came up with a giant/overshadowing mission statement. “Our goal is to SHOW you LOVE!” Talk about a unifying and Biblical concept.
1Corinthians 13: 11-12
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
I’ve been in a church with a great preacher, but who happened to have a real problem with loving people.
I’ve been in a church desperate to love, but hindered from that goal by the “straw-man goals” set up by leadership.
I’ve been in a church so obsessed with presentation and “feeling” that they fall into the trap of believing they are loving, when really they are just imitating.
I’ve been in a church where the love was so abundant that no one knew what they had and then in a flash it was gone.
I’ve been in a church where the love is there, ready, apparent, but sometimes just left lying on the table due to a lack of leadership.
I’ve been in a church where the love is so overwhelming that it drowns out all other concerns, to the point that those pouring out the love accidentally begin to pour out conditions with their love and don’t even realize it.
I've been in a church in the throes of "active drowning".
I’ve been in a church where, amazingly enough, hate palpably seeks to take the place of love.
But far better than all of these, I’ve read about a church that simply is LOVE!
1 Corinthians 13: 13
But now faith, hope, love abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your Heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment.
“The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
I’ve been in a church where, amazingly enough, hate palpably seeks to take the place of love.
But far better than all of these, I’ve read about a church that simply is LOVE!
1 Corinthians 13: 13
But now faith, hope, love abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matthew 22:36-40
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your Heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment.
“The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
