"Though I interpret the biblical text with state-of-the-art- hermeneutics
and preach sermons with flawless homiletics, though all my theologies
are systematic, all my books, blogs, and podcasts scrupulously orthodox,
and my books always best-sellers, without love I am static on a
radio or an error message on a computer screen. Though I can show
decadal church growth in the double digits and raise millions of dollars
In building funds, though I have files full of testimonials from people
saved, healed, delivered, and blessed through my ministry, without love
I’m just another clever, two-bit purveyor of goods and services in the
religious-industrial complex. Though I have worldwide impact, traveling
by private jet and broadcasting on cable, satellite, and the Internet,
though my budgets balance and my seminaries are bursting with beautiful
and handsome valedictorians (all of whom are above average in every
way), and though presidents invite me to the White House and consider
me a 'key person,' without love I am nothing. "
Brian D. McLaren (A New Kind of Christianity. pg.168)
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