The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved.

Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think.

Jesus took the tree of death so you could have the tree of life.

The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

You don't fall in love. You commit to it.