The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor

by Labberton, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780830838400
• ISBN10: 0830838406
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-01
• Publisher: Ivp Books

Summary

Seeing rightly, says Mark Labberton, is the beginning of how our hearts are changed. Through careful self-examination in the Spirit, we begin to bear the fruit of love toward others that can make a difference. Here is a chance to reflect on why our ordinary hearts can be complacent about the evils in the world and how we can begin to see the world like Jesus.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Injustice of the Heart	p. 13
Injustice and the Heart	p. 16
Jesus and the Donkey	p. 18
What This Book Is Not	p. 20
Power, Justice and Injustice	p. 22
Changing the Heart	p. 23
Turning on More Than a Dime	p. 25
On Reading This Book	p. 26
A Work of Fiction?	p. 29
Discovering Where We Live
Our Address	p. 33
It's All Good (Over Here)	p. 38
It's What It Is (Over There)	p. 41
If You Just Keep Moving	p. 44
Paying Attention to Paying Attention	p. 47
The "We"	p. 47
It's Plain as Fact	p. 49
Not a Problem	p. 51
What's Inside Is Outside	p. 54
Sabbath Encouragement	p. 57
Seeing
The Problem of Misperceiving	p. 61
How Misperception Shapes Self-Perception	p. 64
Injustice Rolls Down	p. 66
Learning to See	p. 69
The Broken Image	p. 69
Seeing as We Are Seen	p. 71
Seeing in Ordinary	p. 73
Vision Versus Sight	p. 76
Self-Seeing	p. 79
My Own Broken Mirror	p. 79
Beyond the Social Bell Curve	p. 81
The Bible and the Broken Mirror	p. 84
The Crux	p. 88
Compassionate Dispassion	p. 88
Salty Memories	p. 90
Matters of Identity	p. 93
Field of Vision	p. 94
Depth Perception	p. 96
The Key to My Neighbor's House	p. 99
Dimness	p. 101
Sabbath Encouragement	p. 104
Naming
Choosing Names	p. 109
Renaming Dustin	p. 109
Wrong Names	p. 111
The Story of Naming and Misnaming	p. 113
Do We Hear Ourselves?	p. 115
A New Name	p. 118
Life in the Name	p. 118
Taxonomy of God's Heart	p. 121
Social Naming	p. 125
The Justice and Injustice of Naming	p. 125
Naming and Power	p. 128
A Flair	p. 129
Cool Guy	p. 131
Linguistic Management	p. 133
Distorted Names	p. 136
Butter and Cream	p. 136
Disabled Hearts	p. 138
Harami	p. 139
Changing Names	p. 142
A Contagion of the Heart	p. 143
Viral	p. 146
President Obama	p. 148
Passive-Aggressive	p. 150
Reality-Creating	p. 152
True Naming	p. 154
Sabbath Encouragement	p. 156
Acting
Free to Act	p. 161
External Evidence	p. 163
Face to Face	p. 164
For God So Loved the World	p. 167
Helen and Michael	p. 171
God's Contagion of Hope	p. 172
On the Way	p. 175
An Offering of Abundance and Inadequacy	p. 178
Suffering	p. 180
Grace upon Grace	p. 180
Turning Point	p. 182
Two Letters	p. 184
The Teacher	p. 186
Practicing Dignity	p. 191
The Call to Practice	p. 191
What God Sees, God Gives	p. 193
The Act of Worship	p. 196
Toward a New Heart	p. 196
Holy Worship	p. 197
Justice Is in the Name of Jesus	p. 199
Worship as Reperceiving	p. 200
Worship as Renaming	p. 203
Worship as Reacting	p. 206
Moving Day	p. 208
Sabbath Encouragement	p. 211
Conclusion: Just Hope	p. 214
Group Discussion Guide	p. 218
Acknowledgments	p. 235
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