Comments on: Just Love http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/ Faith is not Belief without proof but Trust without reservation. Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:55:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: cmejia http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-71 cmejia Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:21:52 +0000 http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-71 angela - wow. great post. it sickens my stomach to see how the church has come to treat people who god loves but have lost their way. but it is so difficult to know how to love - without condoning actions that are destroying them - while still give them truth - without turning them off all together. it makes my head spin sometimes. it grieves my heart that as long as i have walked with god, i still do not fully (or even fundamentally) understand how to do the ONE thing he told us to do for our fellow humans - love. they are really only just like us...minus the one thing that can turn it all around for them. it makes my heart hurt. angela – wow. great post.
it sickens my stomach to see how the church has come to treat people who god loves but have lost their way. but it is so difficult to know how to love – without condoning actions that are destroying them – while still give them truth – without turning them off all together. it makes my head spin sometimes. it grieves my heart that as long as i have walked with god, i still do not fully (or even fundamentally) understand how to do the ONE thing he told us to do for our fellow humans – love. they are really only just like us…minus the one thing that can turn it all around for them. it makes my heart hurt.

]]> By: Abs http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-68 Abs Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:16:36 +0000 http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-68 This is a really great post, Angela - and one probably worth delving into a bit deeper. Not probably - you most definitely should. We all should. This has been a burden on my heart for a long, long time and it is not traditionally an easy thing to broach or come to any conclusion about. But I think we must. God has softened my heart toward this group of humanity and it almost sickens me how Christians usually respond to them - or don't know how to respond to them. Please post again.. This is a really great post, Angela – and one probably worth delving into a bit deeper. Not probably – you most definitely should. We all should. This has been a burden on my heart for a long, long time and it is not traditionally an easy thing to broach or come to any conclusion about. But I think we must. God has softened my heart toward this group of humanity and it almost sickens me how Christians usually respond to them – or don’t know how to respond to them. Please post again..

]]> By: pastorb007 http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-67 pastorb007 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:23:36 +0000 http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-67 This is an amazing post. I am a staunch, non-long blog post reader. But, I have read this one at least five times. How do we love when we don't know how? I don't have that answer. But, I believe the first step is to let our hearts be broken with love and then go from there. This is an amazing post.

I am a staunch, non-long blog post reader. But, I have read this one at least five times.

How do we love when we don’t know how? I don’t have that answer. But, I believe the first step is to let our hearts be broken with love and then go from there.

]]> By: jennifer http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-65 jennifer Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:23:33 +0000 http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-65 When I read your post, I was reminded of 1 Cor. 13:4-7 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. When I read your post, I was reminded of 1 Cor. 13:4-7
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

]]> By: candress http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-64 candress Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:18:59 +0000 http://agentlejoy.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/just-love/#comment-64 Thank you for putting all of that into words. I am hopeful and excited to anticipate what God is going to show you and how He will move you to action. I will tell you this, I am totally willing to adopt any ideas He gives you if they ring a true bell within me. I know several homosexual men and women and I also struggle with how to love without condoning the life style that threatens to destroy them. Some of the folks I know tell me that they love Jesus and they believe they are saved. I do not argue with them. I just try to love them where they are at. I know Jesus loves them just as much as He loves me. He died once for all. Didn't mean to get long winded, but this surely struck a nerve with me. My heart breaks for the things that are going on in the news right now. The gay acticists who are bashing Christian sacraments and the "church" who is waving signs that say God hates homosexuals. I love reading your stuff. You challenge me. Thanks. Thank you for putting all of that into words. I am hopeful and excited to anticipate what God is going to show you and how He will move you to action. I will tell you this, I am totally willing to adopt any ideas He gives you if they ring a true bell within me. I know several homosexual men and women and I also struggle with how to love without condoning the life style that threatens to destroy them. Some of the folks I know tell me that they love Jesus and they believe they are saved. I do not argue with them. I just try to love them where they are at. I know Jesus loves them just as much as He loves me. He died once for all.
Didn’t mean to get long winded, but this surely struck a nerve with me. My heart breaks for the things that are going on in the news right now. The gay acticists who are bashing Christian sacraments and the “church” who is waving signs that say God hates homosexuals.
I love reading your stuff. You challenge me. Thanks.

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