This is not a well titled post.
Because the reality is that “LOVE and TRUTH” are the same in every historical moment in time. Nevertheless, our historical moment needs to rediscover that love and truth travel together in a Person (Jesus) and to deviate from that Person, that standard, is destructive to both love and truth. Eric Metaxas, makes just that point in his latest book.
“Truth and love are united in Him [Jesus]. To declare any truth in a way that steps away from God’s love is to speak no truth at all, as well as to step away from the One who is Truth. But to claim we are being loving when we step away from the Truth of God is not to love at all, but only to fool ourselves into thinking we are being loving. It is also to step away from the One who is Love. And when we ‘Love’ in this fallen human way, we are not blessing those whom we claim to be ‘loving,’ but are in fact cursing them and damning them. There’s no way around it. So not to speak an uncomfortable truth to someone who needs to hear it—and giving the excuse that we are loving them—is not to love them but to harm them.”
Letter to the American Church
Eric Metaxas, 89.
Let’s be a people who loves people well by standing for the truth in a truth-denying-culture. People need the love of Christ and they will not get it if we run away from Him and His word because it is unpopular in the culture.
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