In Practicing the
Presence of People, Mike Mason writes that love, if we let it, would
topple the world’s systems. The stock market would crash. Governments would be
overwhelmed. Mike asks the reader, isn’t that what we’re afraid of? Our own
little worlds falling down around us? But, he says, “the destruction of the
world by love is the goal of the gospel. The gospel is a license to love”
(Mason, 40). He explains that there is one law: to love. The gospel gives us
permission to love in a way the world finds foolish. And then he challenges the
reader to stop wondering how to love, and just do it. Ephesians 5:2, live a
life of love. On page 38 he suggests that maybe we do not believe a love like
this is actually allowed. To make our lives fully centered around love would be
unrealistic and inefficient.
What would it look like to fully give in to love?
What would it actually look like to live a life of love?
What would change?
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