"Obviously, the Bible contains guidelines for reconciling with those who have sinned against us (Matt. 5:23-24; 18:15-17), so Paul is not telling us to just sweep things under the rug and pretend like they never happened. Contrary to the notion of “unconditional forgiveness,” Jesus instructs us to forgive our brother seven times a day if he repents (Luke 17:3-4)."
"Love is like a playbook in which every move is designed to be gracious to someone; no matter which play you choose, the only options available to you are to do good for them. Love does not wait to decide whether there is something in the other individual that draws out love."
"This is a common temptation in the church today. We encounter people who have different convictions than we do, who don’t approve of something that we think is fine, and we are tempted to dismiss them or judge them because we feel that they look down on us."
“Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love. Love between two people must not, in the end, be identified simply with emotion or merely with dutiful action. Married love is a symbiotic, complex mixture of both. Having said this, it is important to observe that of the two—emotion and action—it is the latter that we have the most control over. It is the action of love that we can promise to maintain every"
"Love became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. God so loved the world that he sent Love into the world. Love clothed himself in human form and wrapped a towel around his waist to stoop and wash muddy feet. He did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. He entered a cursed world to love the utterly unlovable, setting his affection and care on the diseased, broken, and self-destructive. He took upon himself our unbelievable selfishness and bore the weight of our empty love, burying."
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