pains to insist that it should not be like that with us. The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is of the very essence of what we are about. If this means we need some new reformations, so be it. Follow the argument through. Basic to it all, in verses 7–10, is the fact that God’s love is revealed precisely in sending Jesus, his son, into the world to be the sacrifice that would atone for our sins. Standing at the foot of the cross, gazing on the length to which God’s love has
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