What is the source of love? And what is belovedness?

Belovedness engenders love. If you are actively cherished altruistically by another, despite all of your own shortcomings and feelings of loss and history, that spontaneously and inevitably creates the fruit of love.

1 John 4:9-10 tells us, “In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”

Today Richard’s guest is Paul Zahl, Dean Emeritus of Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an active member in Bible studies at The Center. >>Watch on YouTube

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