last night at DIG we talked about luke 6, where Jesus is interacting with the pharisees and he is trying to get them to understand that he is bringing a new covenant of love and grace and that it doesn't look anything like their legalistic rules and regulations that they have been living by.
Jesus then basically goes back to the drawing board and realizes that the only way that He is going to be able really communicate this new covenant to His people is through modeling to them one day at a time and by showing them first hand what it really looks like to be all about love.
we talked a lot about this last night...about the idea that to truly be like Christ we absolutely have to be all about love...and not just loving people that are easy to love, but loving everyone, even those that we would rather not love.
we talked about the idea of loving the sinner and hating the sin. that seems like such a difficult, ambiguous, thing to me. it is very hard for me to figure out in practice what it looks like to love the sinner and to hate the sin. but here is what it have come to understand...i do know where it begins...it begins with love.
i know that without a doubt, if we are truly going to follow Christ with the entirety of our lives, then we have to be all about love! that is the bottom line!!
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