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Chapter 2 – Searching for the Core

From the book Relational Holiness – Responding to the Call of Love by Thomas J. Oord and Michael Lodahl “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Inigo Montoya – Princess Bride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujVMIYzYXg “The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I’m tearing up…

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Chapter 5 – Loving Practice Makes Perfect Love

From the book Relational Holiness – Responding to the Call of Love by Thomas J. Oord and Michael Lodahl Christian perfection is, in its essence, perfection in love. As we defined earlier, love is “To act intentionally, in response to God and others, to promote well-being.” Knowing this definition of love differs greatly from actually…

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Chapter 3 – Uncomfortable Holiness

From the book: “Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community” by Brett McCracken From Relational Holiness by Thomas Jay Oord and Michael Lodahl “When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along… When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.” (Romans 13:8-10, The…