Love Covers: A biblical Design for Unity in the Body of Christ

by Paul E. Billheimer

The thesis of this book is that in the Church acceptance and fellowship with one another should be on a basis of common spiritual parentage rather than on common views or opinions in non-essentials.

Genres: Religion

164 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1983

Reviews

[Chris Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent and convicting book about the greatest sin in the church which is a lack of agape love. This lack of Christlikeness by church people is the sole cause of disunity in the Body. While I do not agree with the authors theology on several points, his message of our need for growing in agape love was penetrating and convicting. I highly commend this book to Christians of all denominations.

Brief excerpt:

“It seems a universal law that when we judge others, we come to erroneous conclusions from the mere fact that we naturally judge over-harshly. It is one of the basest effects of our fallen nature to put the worst construction upon what we see or hear about others, and to make small, if any, allowance for the hidden good that is in them. We judge others by the worst parts of our own disposition, and not by the best. We judge ourselves by the best things in us, but we judge others by the worst in us. Thus, we impute evil to others, but think goodness is peculiarly our own.
Many religious people, particularly church leaders, think that the power to detect evil in others is a special gift from God, to be prized and cultivated, and if such people are inclined to hunt for evil they can always find it to their satisfaction; but this practice begets a habit of sinful suspicion which is utterly ruinous to the deep love of God and to a Christlike disposition.”