The most loving thing you can do for people far from God

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We’ve been going through the book of 1 John for the last several weeks at our church. It’s been both a blessing and a near-constant challenge. A blessing because there is so much good news in this epistle—some of the most striking words I’ve read in Scripture are here, including:

“Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth” (1 John 3:18). “The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love” (1 John 4:8). “We love because he first loved us” (...