If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.
Richard StearnsWhat if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?
Richard StearnsAnd when we go to church, read our Bibles, have our quiet times, and go to Christian conferences, we too can build some impressive spiritual muscles, but unless we use those spiritual muscles to change our lives, build the church, love our neighbors, and care for the sick and the poor, we...are just posers. Let us not take God's truth for granted.
Richard StearnsGod never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.
Richard StearnsIf we are not personally engaged in God's great mission in the world, then we have missed the very thing he created us to do. We are like birds meant to fly but living in a cage; fish meant to swim but floundering on the beach. It makes sense when you think about it. If the Author of the universe created us to play a key role in his unfolding drama but we have failed to find our place in that story, then of course we would feel incomplete.
Richard Stearns