Stephen McAlpine
The modern phrase ‘Love is love’ has reduced love to a philosophical Mobius strip: an abstract concept that loops around on itself. Chris Cipollone breaks this loop by landing on a biblical understanding of love, one that is rooted in sacrificial service of others. He helpfully unpacks how Jesus fulfils the law of love in himself, culminating at the cross, and then empowers us to love. The final section is a cracker: filled with up-to-date examples of what love looks like in action in our messy modern West, replete as it is with misdirected love, self-love and tribalism. Expect to be challenged—but expect to come away saying, ‘Love is now not only something that I know I should do, and not merely something that I want to do, but something that, by the power of the Spirit through the risen Jesus, I am able to do!’ Love it!”
