Untangling the Mess
Author: Pam Northrup
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Published: 2020-05-24
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ISBN-13: 9781733504034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHurtful messages. Manipulative tactics. Shame. Guilt. Sadly, these have all been used by people of faith to exclude others from faith communities and from God's love. You may be one of them or know someone who is. We've made a mess of God's love, a love that is intended to be warm and comforting like a quilt. In Untangling the Mess: Revealing the Certainty of God's Love, Pam Northrup unties the knots that we've created by?Believing the Bible is infallible?Believing God's love is dependent on what we say or do?Holding a narrow view of God ?Overemphasizing brokenness and disobedience?Creating obstacles to God's love through theological understandings and religious practices.Once the knots are untangled, God's abundant love for you is revealed. Pam uses the untangled threads to create a quilt using different pieces of God's love:?the three-fold nature of God's love: extravagant, encompassing, and empowering? the attributes of God's love: acceptance, compassion, inclusion, and peace?the blessings of God's love: joy, strength, comfort, interconnectedness, and courageThis quilt wraps you in the gift of God's love. Like every giver of gifts, God longs for you to experience the benefits and blessings that are yours because of God's love for you.As this quilt is made, you will encounter a different way of thinking about God and God's relationship with you-regardless of your religious affiliation or lack thereof. So get ready to reframe some of those long-held views of God and be open to understanding the true nature and certainty of God's love.