I thought this was an interesting comment by Hammo about how we define following Jesus. I wonder when it was in history that we took following the creator of all to such soft terminology?
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It was my friend Mike Frost who put his finger on what disturbs me with this, when he spoke of how romantic love has been elevated to the highest status in our society so that now the most powerful statement is about that of ‘being in love’. In many ways this is a western cultural reading of what it means to love Jesus - to be ‘in love with him’ as if he were our partner.
Aside from the fact that this just doesn’t cut it for a vast majority of blokes I don’t think it is what the Bible intended either. David is probably the most expressive worship song writer in the scriptures and he is clear in his expressions of love and adoration for God, but I’m not convinced he took his cues from a romantic idea of love.
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