{"id":593,"date":"2013-05-11T15:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T22:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/goodandtruth\/?p=593"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T22:59:57","slug":"new-church-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/goodandtruth\/2013\/05\/new-church-links\/","title":{"rendered":"New Church Links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A few New Church \/ Swedenborgian articles and videos that I enjoyed this week:<\/p>\n

1.) An article by Joel Glenn<\/a> (who happens to share my last name because he happens to be my brother) at New Church Perspective on a recent insight he had into the way he\u2019s viewed the Father and the Son. Excerpt:<\/p>\n

We think of Jesus as love because in Jesus we can, for the first time, see what love should really look like. It is a love that we can actually comprehend. We don\u2019t just take it on faith that Jesus is loving; we know from His very words and actions that He is.<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s where we come back to that insight into what truth and goodness are. Truth is not about facts or information or knowledge. It\u2019s about expressing love. When truth is actual truth, it is a perfect representation of love. Without truth, love ends up being confusing, harsh, irritable, fickle. If we try to be loving without truth, sometimes it may work, but we\u2019ll end up missing the mark many times. Truth is the tool that links the love that we intend to the reception of that love in another. When truth is in its proper place, all a person will see is the love that is being expressed by the truth. And so when we look at the Lord, all we see is love, because the truth is so clear that love shines through its every facet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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