Costly Love: The Way to True Unity for All the Followers of Jesus
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Overview
ILLUMINATION BOOK AWARDS, 2018 Silver Medal Winner — Christian Living.
What does it mean to believe that God is love, and what does it mean for the church of Jesus Christ to live this love? Extravagant love is costly. It was won at the great price of Christ’s sacrifice; thus, its value is beyond words.
John Armstrong knows from personal experience how easy it is to put too much emphasis on correct teaching in our experience of church—and how easily we lose sight of the love on which Christ built his church when we do so. In Costly Love, Armstrong acknowledges the importance of doctrine and theological discussion in the church, but he urges Christians to focus first on whether we are following Jesus’ new commandment: to love as he loved. Our actions of love will begin to bring us closer to unity with one another and with God.
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- Urges Christians to focus first on whether we are following Jesus’ new commandment: to love as he loved
- Offers hope and a clear road map for how costly love leads to transformation in Christ
- Argues that we are not solely disconnected individuals but whole persons designed for communion and love
- The Steadfast Love of the Lord
- The Meaning of Costly Love
- Two Faces of God’s Love
- Falling in Love With God
- To Whom Shall I Be a Neighbor?
- Can the Church Regain Love as Its Goal?
- How Discipleship Is Rooted in Love
- The Most Astounding Command Ever Uttered
- The New Commandment
- How the New Commandment Was Lost
- The Way of the New Covenant
- Costly Love in a Hostile World
- Followers of the Way
- Finding Divine Life in Costly Love
- This Is My Body, Broken by You
Part I: Who is God?
Part II: Why Should We Love?
Part III: How Can Love Become Our Goal?
Part IV: How Can We Recover the Commandment Jesus Gave?
Part V: What Makes Our Love So Costly?
Good books make you think, great books provoke you to change. John Armstrong has given us a great book that has the potential to transform churches and leaders. Costly Love presents a vision of life that is biblically faithful and consistently congruent with reality. This is as timely a work on this subject as any I have read. This is surely a book we all need for our divided times.
—Rev. Tyler Johnson
John Armstrong has discovered the transforming power of love. His heart beats to its rhythms. In this new book, he invites us all to discover and practice “love without limits” toward both God and our neighbors, regardless of the personal price. Costly Love gives a thoroughly biblical examination of love and each page is chock-full of wisdom. This book can change your life!
—R. Alan Streett, PhD, Senior Research Professor of Biblical Theology - Criswell College, Callas, Texas
Never has a book strummed so many resonant strings in my own heart than John Armstrong’s Costly Love. It is as if he has walked through the chambers of my own habitation in Christ and captured, in enviably readable prose, my deepest convictions of the supreme need of the body of Christ in this hour. Costly Love is as timely a book as I have ever read. At the risk of premature hyperbole, Costly Love has the potential to become a timeless Christian classic. Saying “you must read this book” is to me inadequate understatement—but what else can I say?
Stephen R. Crosby, D. Min. Stephanos Ministries