Love Without Partiality

I heard Francis Chan reference this video in a sermon this weekend and it was so convicting. Even though he is lost he still speaks truth. "How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize." It's strong, but I believe it's something the Church in America needs to hear.

Matthew 22:38-39

³⁸This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

1 John 2:3-6

³And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, ⁵but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ⁶whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

Let's pray for the truth to come into us so that we can love like Christ. So that we won't be afraid or embarrassed to share the good news with someone that we know needs it. We know Heaven and Hell are real and because of that the gospel should be the most important thing in our lives. I pray that God will make the gospel the center of our lives. That are hearts will be opened to the truth and to the transforming glory of God.

"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal...But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendours."

~C.S. Lewis