An Answered Prayer
God's love is astounding
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1Human Love
I believe in my mind, body, and soul that the Lord said, “1Human love is selection and reflection of divine love. 2Human love is inescapably intertwined with sexuality and reaches its most heavenly expression in the merger of sexuality and love. 3From the roots of human love in emotion through its intellectual development as a moral force to its realization in the physical world, human love is the grandest achievement of humanity.
4That which makes an action good is the love that guides it and the love that flows through it. 5An act that is loving in result but not in intention is incomplete. 6An act that is loving (expressive of love, enacting love, or embodying love) in intention but not in result is incomplete. 7Such actions are not sinful, and they are not holy. 8To be holy an action must be intentionally loving in whole and successfully loving in part if not in whole.”
2Nature of Love
I believe in my mind, body, and soul that the Lord said, “1Love seeks the best possible outcome for others. 2It does not always find it but seeks it. 3The key to highest love is in grasping the reality of all others affected by your proposed action and then generating action that best satisfies their needs and desires. 4In order to love the other, one must immerse oneself in the other.
5There is truth in many places. 6Many religions, but not all, have glimpsed me. 7You can tell that a religion has glimpsed me if it speaks of my expectation that human beings will love one another. 8Peace will exist only when human beings can set aside their absolutism and greet and meet one another in the spirit of love. 9There is falsehood in many places. 10All religions contain falsehood although it is not equally distributed. 11The key is to find the treasure of love wherever it may be found. 12Wherever there is love, there also am
19Love does not treat everyone or every action equally. 20Love maximizes love without violating love. 21Love does what it takes to maximize itself in any given situation and toward the future. 22Love tolerates no hatred. 23Love uses no hatred. 24Love tolerates no hateful act. 25Love uses no hateful act.
26Love rewards loving behavior. 27Love builds loving feelings. 28Love builds loving thoughts. 29Love encourages loving intentions.”
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About the Book
What if God got tired waiting for the world to become more loving? What if God saw little hope of traditional Christianity, the Bible, or any existing religion or philosophy managing to make the world adequately loving? What if God decided to say something more about love and to put it into contemporary language? How would God proceed? What would God say?
It seems likely that God would speak to persons in prayer, intending for one or more of them to convey the message to others. It is a time-honored practice fraught with challenges, errors, and limitations. To believe that it can happen is to believe that God exists, that God cares about human beings, and that God answers prayer, all basic tenets of Christianity. It would be helpful to believe that God was not and could not have been captured for all time in the words of the past nor even in the words of the present.
God answered the author''s prayer and, in a startling message, emphasized the preeminence of love and expressed love''s radical nature. God insisted on equality of worth of men and women, validated sexuality, spoke to love-centered Christians about making churches more loving, redefined issues of wealth and power, warned of abuse by organizations, and supported, welcomed, and accepted homosexuals and bisexuals without insisting upon change or chastity.
Believers in exile; those frustrated or disappointed in the church; those who never found a religion or a church worth their time; those who value heterosexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality; those who trust in science; those who never found a model or message of God worth commitment; and those who are committed to love - all those will appreciate God''s message.
What if human life could be improved by love? Would the message not be worth attention?
About the Author
Dr. McCrocklin earned his A.B. in psychology from
What is not apparent but important to his story is the fact that he was a religion major at
As all of that was underway, he finished his education, adopted a critical stance toward Christianity, and pursued his career, the majority of which he devoted to treatment programs for sex offenders. He created a theory of ethics that he called the moral gift and applied it to the offenders in his programs. After finding a path that might lead back to God and holding God to be love, he reentered the church. He was becoming convinced that, if God exists, God must be love and love alone. He prayed a great deal to try to connect with the God of Love, but the effort seemed largely fruitless until, one day, his prayer was answered in a spiritual reawakening. The book reveals the answer.