God challenges us to become radical, non retaliatory, second-mile lovers because nothing leaves a deeper mark on the lives of spiritually hardened men and women than seeing radical love in action.
If you know the love of Jesus Christ is in a personal way, you may sometimes lie awake nights thinking of ways to mark on people's lives so that they too will come enjoy what you have found. Should you wear a little lapel pin? Put a bumper sticker on your car? Display a large Bible in your office? Tell people that you don't go to movies or buy sexually explicit rock albums?
Jesus says, if you really want to make a deep, lasting mark on someone, demonstrate radical love. There is so much compelling power in kind of love that it makes callous people's heads spin. They cannot figure out why you are giving up your rights and letting someone take advantage of you. But that kind of radical love gets people asking questions- questions that often lead them to God.
If you know the love of Jesus Christ is in a personal way, you may sometimes lie awake nights thinking of ways to mark on people's lives so that they too will come enjoy what you have found. Should you wear a little lapel pin? Put a bumper sticker on your car? Display a large Bible in your office? Tell people that you don't go to movies or buy sexually explicit rock albums?
Jesus says, if you really want to make a deep, lasting mark on someone, demonstrate radical love. There is so much compelling power in kind of love that it makes callous people's heads spin. They cannot figure out why you are giving up your rights and letting someone take advantage of you. But that kind of radical love gets people asking questions- questions that often lead them to God.
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