If God is Love

Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible.

Think about for a second what the world may appear to be if we as folks of religion, morality, and conscience really aspired to this mantra.

What if we had been absolutely burdened to create a world that was extra loving and equitable than after we arrived?

What if we invited each other to share in wide-open, fearless, religious communities really marked by compassion and interdependence?

What if we day by day challenged ourselves to stay a religion that merely made us higher people?

John Pavlovitz explores how we will embody this kinder sort of spirituality the place we humbly look at our perception system to grasp the way it may compel us to behave in less-than-loving methods towards others.

This easy phrase, “Thou Shalt Not Be Horrible,” might assist us apply what we preach by making a world the place:

• religious neighborhood supplies a way of belonging the place all persons are obtained as we’re;
• a very powerful query we ask of a spiritual perception shouldn’t be Is it true? however somewhat, is it useful?
• it’s morally unimaginable to pledge full allegiance to each Jesus and America concurrently;
• the way in which we deal with others is essentially the most tangible and significant expression of our perception system.

In If God Is Love, Do not Be a Jerk, John Pavlovitz examines the bedrock concepts of our faith: the existence of hell, the utility of prayer, the way in which we deal with LGBTQ folks, the worth of anger, and different doctrines to assist all of us take a great, sincere take a look at how the beliefs we maintain can form {our relationships} with God and our fellow people―and to ensure that love has the final, loudest phrase.