Love Has a Name
Learning to Love the Different, the Difficult, and Everyone Else
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Discover the joy of stepping out and intentionally loving the people around you.
“Love has a name, and that name isn’t Mark or Adam or even yours! That name is Jesus, and when we make love about him, everything else falls into place. Struggling to love? Pick up this book!”—Mark Batterson, New York Times bestselling author of The Circle Maker and lead pastor of National Community Church
Who does Jesus love? The stranger who looks strange. The driver who cuts us off in traffic. The person online who thinks differently than we do.
Loving people is hard. Especially when it involves the difficult people in our lives and those different from us. We say we love others, but really we don’t. Instead of loving, we hurt, belittle, and overlook people. Which is precisely why we need to learn how to love—from Jesus and from one another.
Adam Weber knows firsthand how important it is to learn to love. And he’s learned incredible lessons from incredible people—some of them quite unexpected. With hope, humor, stretched comfort zones, biblical truth, and (maybe) a few tears, Love Has a Name looks at the most powerful of these stories, showing us twenty-seven people (and one school) who have taught Adam how to love like Jesus.
One name at a time.
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Pastor Weber (Talking With God) delves into how to "love one another" in this sparkling work. Weber builds his message presenting vignettes from the lives of 27 people as modern-day parables, each of which is supplemented by related Bible stories. Each chapter highlights someone who has either loved the author or who Weber has struggled to love, including his friend Brett, who was born with cerebral palsy and with whom Weber found a deep love and friendship; Tony, a member of Weber's church who's also a drag queen; and Bill, a drug dealer, sex offender, and the author's former neighbor. Weber challenges readers to embody Christ-like love by befriending those whose stories differ from their own. Instead of judging or trying to fix others (which the author reminds is Jesus's job, not theirs), Weber promotes seeking common ground, listening to others, and showing respect for differing points of view. Though Weber's prose is conversational, at times it skews too far toward youth pastor such as when he gushes about Justin Bieber ("the Biebs") or borrows his kids' expression "boom roasted." Both Christian adults and teens will find Weber's approach to learning to love practical and personally challenging.
