Living for Love: The essence of Christianity, and humanity's only hope
Ebook
The world is in crisis. In the wake of a global pandemic, the climate emergency is already wreaking havoc. We are hampered by division between and within nations. The delusional pursuit of self-interest renders a concerted response difficult. That is why the clarion call to “live for love” now resounds with increasing urgency.
Confident in God’s eternal love, we are set free from self-promotion to live the lives we are being given. Loving the people with whom we are connected is fundamental to love for God. Believing that the supreme interpreter and exemplar of love is Jesus Christ, David R. Tomlinson expounds Jesus’ teaching on how our love is to include the stranger, and even our enemy. Communities rooted and grounded in love are at the heart of what it means to be the Church, and forming “loving communities” is essential to the vision of one human family united by mutual love in the pursuit of a just and sustainable future.
- Title: Living for Love: The essence of Christianity, and humanity's only hope
- Author: David R. Tomlinson
- Publisher: Sacristy Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781789592603, 9781789592580, 1789592585, 9781789592597, 1789592593, 1789592607
- Resource ID: LLS:9781789592603
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-20T10:05:52Z
David R. Tomlinson is Vicar of St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, and Chair of Thrive Together Birmingham. Previously he was Area Dean of Saffron Walden and Team Rector of the Saffron Walden and Villages Team Ministry in North West Essex within the Diocese of Chelmsford. Prior to that appointment he spent ten years as Vicar of Grays North, including five years as Area Dean of Thurnock.
In over 25 years of ordained ministry he has led four major building projects and extensive change management. As both invariably generate tensions, he has a particular interest in how to lead a church though conflict and how to resolve disagreements.
David is married to Jenny, who is also ordained, and they have two adult children.