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The Rule of Love: How the Local Church Should Reflect God's Love and Authority is unavailable, but you can change that!

God Is Love vs. Love Is God. Our culture’s view of love—with no boundaries or judgments or conditions— justifies whatever our hearts want and whatever our hearts feel, rejecting any authority that gets in the way. Falsely heralded as the only path to true selfexpression and self-realization, this kind of love diminishes—if not completely redefines—the holy love of God revealed in the Bible. In...

a sharer in the injustices done to that group. Let me illustrate. Many whites pride themselves on being color blind. “I don’t think of you as black. I just think of you as my friend.” The black man might then understandably reply, “If you’re my friend, you’ll ask me what my experience has been like as a black man in this country.” A friend once said that to me. He rightly identified a failure to love my friend well. What such a reply also suggests is that it’s easy for members of the majority like