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Too often the Christian version of popular culture’s sentimental view of love is that, of all things, Christians should be nice. After all, people ask, isn’t the Church about forgiveness? Aren’t Christians supposed to love others without condition? This book not only focuses on the aspects of Christian love that are not easy–such as when it comes to loving our enemies, and even forgiving those...

the love of Christians for Christians is nothing other than the love of Christians for enemies. (5) Neither God’s intra-Trinitarian love nor the love of Christians for other Christians is ever permitted in Scripture to dilute or diminish the fundamental truths of the gospel. When 1 John excludes certain people from the fellowship of the church, it is not because of personal animus but because of stances that, in the New Testament, must face discipline if the church is to continue to be the church.
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