Love Like Jesus Does

For the believer in Jesus the proclamation isn't even the main thing; it's truly loving as Jesus loved, and thus proclaiming the mesage from a heart of love.

It's one thing to have conservative values, OK? But do those conservative values produce a liberal love? And is one's liberal love in turn rooted in the heart of Christ?

If the Scriptures are true in that having seen Jesus we've seen the Father a lot of us have a lot of repenting to do--whether liberal or conservative--because can we honestly say we're loving those (perceived as) different from us as Jesus does? Or do we rather vilify and excoriate, expecting instead everyone to adopt our values, our convictions?

Remember: God makes His sun to shine, and His rain to fall, upon the just and unjust alike. In love, He provides for everyone--whether they love Him, or no.

If we (believers) could all love like that the world would be a very, very different place.

My dear, departwd grandma used to say "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."

We would do well to remember that

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