Love corrects because love seeks the best for the beloved. If you love, you might find you want the best more than the person you love.
He might be hurrying toward self-destruction. He might hate himself. In Christ and by His Spirit, your task is to love him more than he loves himself.
@PLeithart This article served a vital role for me when I first began grappling with the claims of the RC's and EO's.
Also, you should check out What It Means to Be Protestant by Ortlund. It's basically a book long treatment of your article.
@PLeithart I loved your interview with him. It does make me wonder though what the goal of reunification entails for us in the CREC. Should our communion be aiming for gradual reunification with other communions/denominations? And if so, which groups would be the most feasible & strategic?
@PLeithart Thanks for the response. I'll be sure to check those out.
Also, have you done any lectures or writings concerning The Confessions? It's a mountain of a book and I've been looking for any supplemental resources like your book on Dante.
The Son unites Himself with us so He can unite us with His Father. And there’s an important effect: By uniting Himself with us, He also unites us with one another.
The Word enters the world to break down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile, to gather a people from every tribe and tongue and nation, to form a unified new humanity. He enters the world to create the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.
The church’s unity isn’t liberal tolerance. It’s not a willful determination to get along. The unity of the church is anchored outside itself, in God.
We are one with one another because we are one with God. We dwell in one another because we dwell in the Son who dwells in the Father.
We are one because we share the oneness that is the very life of the Triune God.