The Fear Agenda

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ’sinners’ love those who love them.” Luke 6:32...

Our objective-in-Jesus is to love the unlovable, and this makes the Christian community unique.

God insists that love set the agenda. We insist the agenda be set sometimes by love, but often by fear.

Fear pushes us into an agenda of self-interest, counsels my spiritual mentor, Steve Pettit. In fear, we look out for ourselves and behave very similar to those who are unloving and those who are un-God-like. Fear terrorizes us into remain emotionally immature and spiritually isolated. Fear holds us hostage; keeping us from developing authentic, transparent relationships.

God created us so that if we live a self-absorbed life then we’ll fail every time with our methods of self-service, self-preservation, and self-determination. Yet, God says, in essence, “Love one another in the same way that I have loved you.”

Is this a he-can’t-be-serious command?

Our objective-in-Jesus, then, is to get in step with God’s perfect love. His love is already at work in us, dismantling the barricades we’ve built for self-protection. His plan is that fear will no longer shape our lives and then we’ll be able to be love others in the same way that God loves us.

It is fear that keeps us out-of-step with God’s perfect love, and God will stop at nothing, including a bloody cross, to eliminate that fear from our lives.

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Staying God with could always throw away our fears