It heals and edifies and empowers. But most of all it helps them focus on God and engage with God and commune with God. They have submitted to another way. They have yielded to what others saw as good and helpful. Now, this summer, the shoe is on the other foot, and the test is whether those who prefer the other way will be patient and will yield, at least for a season, in love.
Love suffers long and is kind. . .
Love is not easily provoked. . . Love seeks not its own. We began this series on love with a quote from Francis Schaeffer to the effect that when Christians differ there is a golden opportunity to show the world how we love each other. Differences are not the end of love, they are the occasion for love. Which means an occasion for death.