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In Care, Dwayne R. Bond shares a heartfelt and convicting call to Love Your Church by Walking Through Life Together. He begins with a fundamental truth: we cannot love God and idols. When idols capture our hearts, our ability to love others is deeply compromised.

Bond calls out common cultural idols—racism, politics, and especially social media. Regarding social media, he writes, “Our longing to be the most significant person in the room robs the people in the room around us of our love.” That line really hit home.

Christ’s Love Displayed in Community

God’s love is relentless and steadfast. Christ’s love enables us to serve, honor, and build one another up. This is not just a private spiritual reality—it’s meant to be put on display in the local church, through real-life relationships.

Bond outlines five dynamics of unconditional love in a divided culture. Two that stood out most to me were: commit to forgiving others as I have been forgiven in Christ and count the cost of unconditional love. True love is costly—it means absorbing the offense and laying it on Christ’s shoulders.

Cross-Cultural Love in the Church

In Chapter 6, Bond focuses on the multiethnic church. He challenges us to love each other by learning from each other. This means intentionally building meaningful connections with believers from different cultural backgrounds—a vital step in unity and growth.

Bond’s message is a much-needed call to live out our faith not in isolation, but together, in grace and truth. Above all, this book reminds us that love truly is the more excellent way.

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