The Gospel cannot happen in your head alone.<\/p>\n
The gospel is about relationship. Unless there is someplace on this earth where it\u2019s happening between you and another person, I don\u2019t believe you have any criterion to judge whether it\u2019s happening at all. Unless you\u2019re in right relationship with at least one other person on this earth, unless there is some place you can give and receive love, I don\u2019t think you have any reason to think you are giving or receiving divine love either.<\/p>\n
Is there at least one place in your life where you are giving and receiving love? If it happens in one place, it can happen everywhere. If you are truly capable of loving one person, you\u2019re capable of loving more than one, and eventually even your enemy, and finally all. Love is one piece. Thus, we rightly speak of being \u201cin love\u201d and Paul speaks of being \u201cin Christ.\u201d Love is all or nothing. You either express love or you don\u2019t. The Scholastic philosopher, Josef Pieper, said it very well, \u201cthe proper habitat for truth is human relationship.\u201d How we relate to anyone is how we relate to everything else, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This came from Richard Rohr,\u00a0The Good News According to Luke:\u00a0Spiritual Reflections, p. 138. I love how Rohr emphasizes Jesus\u2019s teaching about giving and receiving love. This is such a key piece of what it means to encounter God. If we lose this, we lose everything. The Gospel cannot happen in your head alone. The gospel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-richard-rohr"],"yoast_head":"\n
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