Who would disagree that we should love like Jesus? We are free to give lip-service and song-service to go tell it on the mountain or I'm in the Lord's army. Yet, de-roosting of the pews is surely a goal of all churches.
So how do we accomplish this meaningful task?
There seems to be an interchanging word for love. It would be care. God so cared that He gave. God cared about us. We will love when we care and we will care when we love.
So how do we accomplish this meaningful task?
Sermons will support. Bible study will help. To put legs on the task we may find placing our people in the line of the poor is what opens the hearts the quickest. Impact is felt when hearts begin to feel. The body of Christ is a feeling system...everyone kept feeling the sense of awe..it is written of the church's opening day.
The church is both emotionally based and emotionally charged. Both have been siphoned by "church correctness" and "decent and in order" propaganda. Our people have frozen for fear we might get service wrong. We have been reduced to mere "clock in" "clock out" for so long that we have let the tenderness of the body of Christ wane.
How we move into the love of Jesus is to realize, first, this is an emotional matter. The church always needs deep-seated emotion. Indifference is a lack of emotion; a lack of care, a lack of love. What breaks indifference is to stand face to face with a poor person in need of your care. We stand together in our little acreage and find that we care. Our immediate response is to give.
God so cared for the world He gave. Giving hearts love people, root for people, and move for people. How we might move into the love of Jesus is to hang out with those whose life isn't going well rather than only those of our social level where we are getting by.
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