This from D. A. Carson in today's romance:
Christian love, mature, deep, and unqualified, is a rare commodity. When it is displayed, it speaks volumes to a society that gorges itself in self-interest, lust, mutual-admiration pacts, even while it knows very little of love. Show me a church where the choir is known as the War Department, where people divide over evangelistic strategies or over the color of the carpet, and I'll show you a church that has not been praying along these lines for some time [that the love of Christ would abound in its midst]. Conversely, we will see profound spiritual renovation if by God's grace we make it our commitment not to put anyone down--except on our prayer list (A Call to Spiritual Reformation, emphasis mine, pp. 92-93).
Brethren and Sistren, love well by praying hard and only putting one another down on your Seven Day Prayer Directories and personal lists.
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WOWAH!. You are getting better at this all the time! What a delight to read these lines.
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