What If Love Isn't a Second Hand Emotion?
Douglass Church - Douglass Blvd Christian Church
English - November 08, 2018 21:53 - 47 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Spirituality disciple christ progressive christian church open affirming lgbt justice sermon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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And the fact that Jesus links love for neighbor and love for God together suggests that the way we love God is through our love for our neighbors. Jesus doesn’t offer up some vague notion of love that centers first on our ability to muster up the correct emotional responses.
In fact, if we’re ever going to feel love, then, in all likelihood, we’re going to have to act lovingly first.
The secret of love that our culture seems not to know is that the feelings of love generally follow loving action; they don’t necessarily precede them. It is easier, as the saying goes, to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.
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