The Love Faction (2015.07.26 Sermon Audio)
July 26th, 2015 | John Chandler
John Chandler talked about Jesus’ teachings on love from Matthew 5:38-48 — a kind of love that is unconditional for the other, while also inviting them into the fullness of who they were created to be.
Links and quotes mentioned:
- “Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching–all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home, and had such a powerful lot to say about faith and good works and free grace and preforeordestination, and I don’t know what all, that it did seem to me to be one of the roughest Sundays I had run across yet.” — Huck Finn
- “When your country and mine shall get together on the teachings laid down by Christ in this Sermon on the Mount, we shall have solved the problems not only of our countries but those of the whole world.” — Gandhi
- “The longer I live — especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death — the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, … what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries. Love, or in other words the striving of men’s souls towards unity and the submissive behavior to one another that results therefrom, represents the highest and indeed the only law of life, as every man knows and feels in the depths of his heart … Any employment of force is incompatible with love.” — Leo Tolstoy in Letter to a Hindu
- “I define love as an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person in which I give myself to bring the relationship to God’s intended purpose.” — Michael Wilkins
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