Asbury Herald, Summer 2007 – Throughout the World

“. . . Our culture has become far more complicated. . . How do you carry the gospel “throughout the world” when the world is as vast, complex and self-contradictory as ours? And then there’s John 3:16. It tells us not only that God loves the world, but it also spells out more specifically and more inclusively God’s definition for the world: the word is whosoever. Here is a democracy of love beyond our comprehension. Some of us can love many people, and a few of us can love most people, but only God (or those wonderfully transformed by God) can love whosoever.” (From page 9)  more...