Quote of Note #164: Self-sacrificial Love

~ gachorpenning

“God does not force us to do anything, including love our neighbor. Therefore, love is a choice, not a given. Love is an inconvenient choice, one that costs us time, resources, and at times our safety. God’s love empowered by the Spirit, compels us to be countercultural, bearing witness to who and whose we are through how we see, interact with, and affirm the imago Dei in all our neighbors.”

Dominique Dubois Gilliard, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Reflective, 2021, page 97.

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I am a husband, father, and grandfather. The southwestern Pennsylvania is currently home, though I've called several other places home before this. I maintain a YouTube channel of Bible teaching videos and a podcast of Bible teaching audio. I like to make things out of wood and other materials. I like taking photographs and use a lot of them in my blog posts. For thirty-nine years, I served as a pastor of churches in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York.

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