“When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.”
― Love Beyond Reason
― Love Beyond Reason
“God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us.”
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“If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.”
― Love Beyond Reason
― Love Beyond Reason
“The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.”
― Love Beyond Reason
― Love Beyond Reason
“When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.”
― Permission Granted to Do Church Differently in the 21st Century
― Permission Granted to Do Church Differently in the 21st Century
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