Love-coated, love-message
The way I hear you speak:
I hear a pride turn sour my ears,
Turn off my heart to what you preach -
The way you say things so bluntly
And matter of factly -
As if there is no room for argument
'If you're really a Christian...' -
It angers me that you fail to help
What you preach into our hearts -
Failing to show us the loving manner
Which should be the only way
To get across what God is for -
For He is:
A loving Father -
The Loving God
Whose affection is unfathomable
And beauty is unparalleled.
I pray and plead to you -
Let grace flow from your mouth -
Words of faith smothered in love -
For Him and from Him -
To help me understand
And love
My Father, Lord and God.
© R. A. W. S. Clarke
This is a poem that is on a difficult subject as it is hard to know whether some people need the Message given to them in a very loving way or whether they would respond better to the truth being stuffed down their throats.
What I was really trying to get across here is that the message we have is one of love from a loving father and that we should pass it on lovingly. I did not mean that we should gloss over things, because that is generally a worse way of doing things - just that we should deliver the gospel in a way that is loving of the person or peoples that we're giving it to.
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