"offtentimes the christian community has sent the message that we love people and build relationships in order to convert them to the christian faith. so there is agenda, it isn't really love, is it? it's something else. we have to rediscover love, period. love that loves because it is what jesus teaches us to do. we have to surrender our agendas. because some people arent going to become christians like us no matter how hard we push. they just aren't. and at some point we have to commit them to god, trusting that god loves them more than we ever could...but i have learned that when i toss out my agenda and simply love as jesus teaches me to, i often end up learning more about god than i could have imagined." rob bell, velvet elvis pg. 167
rob this is what has been on my heart and mind for a while... i can't say that i have mastered it that i dont think of people as beilvers or non believers that i love with out an agenda that i simply just love...i'm trying..its hard but that's the goal.
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ahhhh....how refreshing is this? I can't tell you how many times I've read that page in that book...or how many times I've quoted it. I love it. People are people and we need to love them equally and just for the simple fact that God created them...no agenda! Love it!
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