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Waking us up to the width, length, height, and depth of God’s love.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the way John begins the first of his short letters: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life: The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it . . .” (1 Jn 1:1-2). John wrote this as an eighty-year-old man, an elder at the church in Ephesus, to encourage the churches in the western region of what is now Turkey. Sixty years had passed since John was a young man, full of zeal and life, an eager student of the Jewish rabbi Jesus . . . one of his inner circle, in fact, “the disciple whom Jesus loved.” He stayed close to his teacher to the end, the only disciple at the foot of the cross, caring for the mother of his friend. He was also the first of the disciples to reach the empty tomb, an eyewitness to the physical, literal, historical, resurrected Jesus. For John, God was not an idea, or a moral standard, or a disembodied power. God was his friend, a man he spent years with, listening, watching, and physically interacting with. John knew what Jesus looked like, what he smelled like, felt like, how tall he was, he knew Jesus’ accent when he spoke, and what it felt like to laugh and . . .
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As we bring this series to a close, it is imperative we address what is for many the elephant in the room, so to speak. . . .
As we’ve seen in this series, love as the controlling center of theology traditionally has either been neglected or ignored.1 But it hasn’t always been . . .
I have had twelve years of formal theological training. For the vast majority of those years, I considered the love of God as a moral . . .
As we saw in part one of this series, not every theologian begins from the same theological starting point.1 Different historical and cultural contexts have . . .
Waking us up to the width, length, height, and depth of God’s love.
