Someone reminded me today of this quote from C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity:
“The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
In my message yesterday, I talked about the motto when I was a summer camp counselor, “Fake it till you feel it.” We didn’t always have the energy or feel like loving the campers, but if we just dove in and “faked it,” it wasn’t long till the feelings caught up to the decision.
The point is that love works best when we make it the rule, the decision, the commitment, the job or the calling rather than what accidentally happens when we happen to feel like it. In other words, we should treat love as dogma.
Loved loved loved the message on Sunday!!!!!!!! It put in to words so much of what I’ve been feeling and struggling to understand. Thank you so much for the time and heart that you put into it. I feel so blessed to be a part of Antioch!!!
There is definitely a buzz out there about your sermons from the past couple weeks. I’ve run into a bunch of acquaintances this week who were so excited to talk about what they heard on Sunday and how it “was like he was speaking directly to [them].” It’s obvious the Spirit is at work through your messages.