I love you. Mere words, yet so moving because of the person and the circumstance. We all long to hear authentic words from the hearts of those significant to us about things that matter. The desire that people have to hear a trusted voice has never been greater, for never in history have there been so many voices, so much input, so much confusion. People desperately long for someone to sort things out for them, a point of reference, a shepherd.
Mere words move mountains and melt hearts.
Mere words convey gospel, convey the Word made flesh. For several months I've been preaching recurrently on the theme of Christian community. As a direct result of your sermons about forgiving and accepting each other, I decided to do that with someone in the church. Before this I had shut down toward him, thinking, That person's just a little too weird. I'm not going to try to communicate with him.