I was thinking about love while doing the dishes after having listening to the podcast linked below. Wesleyan understanding of prevenient grace might be expressed as God's holiness being in place before it is brought forth in the experience of salvation/sanctification. A helpful perspective of that concept might be to accept that those individuals we seek to evangelize and disciple already have some experience of love. Missiology suggests that we don't reject all elements of the culture of the peoples we are trying to help accept Jesus. As difficult it as it may be for us to open our hearts and minds to those we deem as unsaved or unsanctified we might want to consider that what they conceive of as love might be what God has put in their lives as the foundation for the bridge to Jesus.
http://homebrewedchristianity.com/2009/03/20/a-tour-de-amore-with-thomas-jay-oord-homebrewed-christianity-47/
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