Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue
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Published by Tyndale Momentum (edition ), 2016
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- Title
- Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue
- Author
- Corey, Barry H.
- Publisher
- Tyndale Momentum (edition )
- Publication year
- 2016
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- Fair
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- Language
- English
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- 149641196X
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- 9781496411969
Dr. Barry Corey, president of Biola University, believes we tend to devalue the importance of kindness, opting instead for caustic expressions of certainty that push people away. We forget that the essence of what God requires of us is to “love kindness.” In this book, filled with stories from his travels around the globe, Barry shows us the forgotten way of kindness. It is a life that calls us to put ourselves at risk. A life that calls us to hope. A life of a firm center and soft edges. It is the life Christ invites us to follow, no matter what the cost.
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Love Kindness
Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue
By Barry H. CoreyTyndale House Publishers
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Contents
Introduction, xi,
CHAPTER 1 A Father's Profound Lesson: The Way of Kindness Calls Us to Be Receivable, 1,
CHAPTER 2 A New Job, a Road Trip, a Father and Son: The Way of Kindness Is Messy, 11,
CHAPTER 3 The Security Officer on Day One: The Way of Kindness Looks like Humility, 35,
CHAPTER 4 The Gay Conversation in Dhaka: The Way of Kindness When We Disagree, 53,
CHAPTER 5 Unsuitably Intolerant: The Way of Kindness Often Takes Time, 75,
CHAPTER 6 A Song for the Bereaved: The Way of Kindness Is the Power of Presence, 91,
CHAPTER 7 "But Leah Had Weak Eyes": The Way of Kindness Sees Beauty in Ashes, 103,
CHAPTER 8 The Religious Man in Seat 29E: Hypocrisy Spoils the Way of Kindness, 121,
CHAPTER 9 The Fiddler and the German Boy in Waiting Room A: The Way of Kindness Mentors, 135,
CHAPTER 10 Nehemiah and the Banquet: The Way of Kindness Comes with a Hot Meal, 157,
CHAPTER 11 The Little League Game Gone Wrong: The Way of Kindness Is Sometimes Rejected, 173,
CHAPTER 12 My Patron Saint of Kindness: The Way of Kindness Is Often Awkward but Always Right, 187,
CHAPTER 13 The Kindness Experiment: Seven Thoughts on Softening Our Edges, 195,
Conclusion, 223,
Gratitude, 229,
Notes, 233,
About the Author, 235,
CHAPTER 1
A FATHER'S PROFOUND LESSON: THE WAY OF KINDNESS CALLS US TO BE RECEIVABLE
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Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. — MATTHEW 10:40, ESV
For my father's final days, we checked him into a Boston hospice center, referring to it as "palliative care" to mask the gravity of his last home. It was a welcoming room housing a welcoming man, and visitors sensed in this antiseptic environment the purity of my father's affections. As long as he was cogent, he was also kind.
Loving-kindness was my father's greatest way to help others see their greatest yearning: knowing the grace of God the Father. For him, it always began by making himself what he called "receivable." When he went into the receivable mode, he would reach out to others with love that could only be described as divine. That life of being receivable is the starting point for the life of kindness. And as his life flashed before my eyes on that last night, I recalled one of the most profound lessons he ever taught me.
My father lived the receivable life, but he talked to me about it only once. One somewhat ordinary conversation on an early morning walk with him in Bangladesh stands out as that transformative moment when I began to grasp how his acts of being receivable were the first steps toward kindness.
I was researching in Bangladesh for several months when my father visited for a few days, traveling with my mother between missionary stops in Madras and Singapore. I was in my late twenties, ponytailed and single. Each morning before breakfast, he and I descended the staircase from the small flat I leased and stepped onto the streets of Dhaka, one of the world's poorest and most densely populated cities. On our walk we passed half-constructed homes framed by bamboo scaffolding. Dumpsters were permanent, not portable, made of brick and rummaged through simultaneously by dogs and children and widows. Open drains on each side of the street reeked of human waste, and rickshaw peddlers dodged us as we walked our morning route.
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