Comments on: Loving Desperation http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/12/07/loving-desperation/ Rediscover Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Parke Ladd http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/12/07/loving-desperation/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Parke Ladd Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:49:01 +0000 http://www.parkeladd.com/?p=2729#comment-655 @joshhoke I totally agree, Josh. Thanks for your comment. It's so easy/comfortable to state a belief, but it's highly difficult and many times uncomfortable to actually walk by faith, acting on our stated beliefs. However, loving action through faith is the most rewarding and fulfilling lifestyle, in my opinion. @Michael Faithfully loving others is a foundational aspect of who we are as Jesus followers. But you're right, just because we are called to constantly love, doesn't guarantee us a life of predictability or comfort. Genuinely loving others can get us in some trouble. In the end, however, it's all that matters. Thanks for your comment @joshhoke I totally agree, Josh. Thanks for your comment. It’s so easy/comfortable to state a belief, but it’s highly difficult and many times uncomfortable to actually walk by faith, acting on our stated beliefs. However, loving action through faith is the most rewarding and fulfilling lifestyle, in my opinion.

@Michael Faithfully loving others is a foundational aspect of who we are as Jesus followers. But you’re right, just because we are called to constantly love, doesn’t guarantee us a life of predictability or comfort. Genuinely loving others can get us in some trouble. In the end, however, it’s all that matters. Thanks for your comment

]]> By: Michael http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/12/07/loving-desperation/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Michael Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:02:50 +0000 http://www.parkeladd.com/?p=2729#comment-648 So much truth here. I really like that you say that life without love is only a fragment of what life is intended to be. But a life in pursuit of love is unpredictable, seeminly foolish, and unbelievably free. Thanks for this article. So much truth here. I really like that you say that life without love is only a fragment of what life is intended to be. But a life in pursuit of love is unpredictable, seeminly foolish, and unbelievably free. Thanks for this article.

]]> By: Josh Hoke http://www.parkeladd.com/2009/12/07/loving-desperation/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Josh Hoke Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:59:29 +0000 http://www.parkeladd.com/?p=2729#comment-647 Great article. I think this speaks of our church culture as a whole. So much of Christianity today is Sunday-to-Sunday Christianity. I've walked out of services staring down at my belly button feeling down from a church service wondering why. I'm not down on the church, I'm just saying, what's next? There is definitely a loud call, particularly for American Christians, to heed and be filled up and sent out. We can play a rocking worship set sometimes but if there is no love and nothing that comes as an overflow of that great time of worship, what are we doing this for in the first place. Sometimes I feel like God is saying, \Okay, I get you say you love me, no go show it.\ Great article. I think this speaks of our church culture as a whole. So much of Christianity today is Sunday-to-Sunday Christianity. I’ve walked out of services staring down at my belly button feeling down from a church service wondering why. I’m not down on the church, I’m just saying, what’s next? There is definitely a loud call, particularly for American Christians, to heed and be filled up and sent out. We can play a rocking worship set sometimes but if there is no love and nothing that comes as an overflow of that great time of worship, what are we doing this for in the first place. Sometimes I feel like God is saying, \Okay, I get you say you love me, no go show it.\

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