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The Church and the Surprising Offense of God’s Love: Reintroducing the Doctrines of Church Membership and Discipline is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the world speaks of “love,” it often means unconditional acceptance. Many churches have adopted this mindset in their practice of membership and discipline—if they have not done away with such structures entirely. “Yet God’s love and God’s Gospel are different than what the world expects,” writes Jonathan Leeman. They are centered in his character, which draws a clear boundary between what...

religious hate-mongers scorn the young, beautiful, and free. Even the innocent daughter is indirectly made a victim. So just what kind of love story is The Scarlet Letter? It is one that well illustrates the assumptions about love that many people were beginning to make in the nineteenth century when Hawthorne wrote his book, assumptions which I believe are pretty much unquestioned today. It’s difficult to succinctly explain those assumptions about love. In fact, I’ll use all of chapter 1 to attempt
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