by Leonard Sweet
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Three simple words–“I love you”–capture the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry.
These three words form the bottom line and top drawer of all his teachings. And they remain the three hardest words in the world to get right. Two pronouns and a verb have never been so difficult to grasp, much less to practice.
Popular culture has ruined love’s reputation by redefining it first as romance, and then as lust. But it’s not just the meaning of the word love that causes so much confusion. To fully understand love, we also need to find out who we are in God’s eyes and whom we are commanded to love. Following Jesus can be described as the daily practice of all three words: I. Love. You. There is nothing more rewarding, and nothing more risky.
Join Leonard Sweet in this eye-opening, life-altering exploration of three simple, one-syllable words. After all, the lifestyle of love is the only life that Jesus calls you to live.
There is nothing more challenging than adopting the three-word lifestyle of Jesus as your own.
Perhaps you have wondered why love seems to work for everyone else, but not for you. Or maybe you’ve done your best to love those around you, but it seems that life has drained your last drop of trust and affection. Nothing is better than love when it’s right; and nothing is more destructive than attempts at love that fail to follow the Jesus prescription for a healthy life.
Jesus devoted his earthly life to saying these three words–I love you–and teaching us how to say them. As Jesus defined love, it takes everything you’ve got…and then even more, which only God can give. The lifestyle of love is not something you can master on your own, but Jesus is ready to show you how.
Starting today, you can learn to live “I love you”–the three hardest words in the world to get right.
Leonard Sweet, PhD, serves as the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon, and founder and president of SpiritVenture Ministries. He has written many books, including Out of the Question…Into the Mystery and the trilogy SoulTsunami, AquaChurch, and SoulSalsa.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
worth the effort, 2008-01-18
I have had the pleasure to meet Leonard Sweet and to hear him speak. His speaking is simple and clear and profound. His books I have found to be a bit more difficult to get through. The first couple chapters of this book are very thick and obtuse even, but it is well worth the effort to fight through them. This book is laden with great thoughts on how love can change the way we see this world we live in. It is a challenge to get going, but when you finish you will agree it was worth it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Comprehending why they can't, 2007-01-10
THis book helped me comprehend the youth cultures challenge in receiving and giving love. True love and the understanding of it has been lost. "An aha moment for those growing up in a dynamic family!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
I LOVE THIS!, 2006-04-16
"I love you!" What could be easier to say?
And yet, brilliant mind Sweet purports that these are the very words that confound us in our life journey. This is a wonderful book - a gift to individuals and the North American Church. Now we must spread the love - thanks Len!
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