It’s the thing God has given them to say to people, and that is that you have to think of yourself as a dearly loved child of God or you’re really not able to live the Christian life at all. Unless you are governed by the idea that you are a dearly loved child, you can’t live. You were built for family love. You were built for it. You were built to have a loving father, a loving parent. You were built for it, and until you see that’s true of you, you can’t live a life of imitation of God.51
