Love of Neighbor (24)
  1. There's a lesson here and we're not going to be the ones to figure it out. What happens when a pastor is called to minister to Nazi war criminals? This is the second of three episodes, where we talk about the power of the Gospel, state-sponsored religion, and pastoral care when it's attacked from outside and within the church.
  2. Believing stuff is about the stuff, not the believing. Gillespie and Riley read and discuss the book, Mission to Nuremberg. What happens when a pastor is called to minister to Nazi war criminals? This is the first of three episodes, where we talk about the power of the Gospel, state-sponsored religion, and pastoral care when it's attacked from outside and within the church.
  3. We want to be kind, gentle, and cheerful to others, but we’ve got to protect ourselves from getting hurt.
  4. Forgiveness, not love, can restore a relationship that’s top-heavy with negative emotions.
  5. We confuse our success and failures with God’s judgment of us.
  6. When we preach Jesus crucified for the sin of the world, Jesus crucified to put away God’s harsh judgment, that good news creates faith
  7. Peace comes when we give up worrying about self-interest, self-preservation, and self-satisfaction and instead keep our eyes fixed on good God and Savior Jesus.
  8. Love is the sum of the law. Love God with all your heart, spirit, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. That means that if love can't be done when it needs to be done then get rid of the law, because it's not lawful.
  9. Jesus dies for the sin of the world. That means he dies for the person who disappoints us. He shed His blood for the person who doesn’t love us the way we want to be loved.
  10. When we talk about love then, let us not talk about ourselves.
  11. But where love is necessary we pray for our enemies and bless them in the hope that God will repent and convert them to the Gospel.
  12. It's difficult enough for us to bear anothers' burdens, but carry another person's sin for him? Why would we do that?