Love Sends. What does that mean exactly?
This year at Breakaway we have been talking about how love is active. Love sends text messages when thinking of someone. Love sends money in a time of need. Love sends resources to those without. Love initiates. Love moves. Love sends. Love sends a beloved Son to give His life for others. 1 John declares that God’s love was manifested in this: that He sent His son that we might live through Him. John follows this declaration with another: “If God so loved us, we should love one another.” If God’s love expressed itself in action to benefit another, so should ours. That is what this blog-site is about.
Over the past several weeks we’ve been flooded with two kinds of messages. One type asks questions like: “you’ve been talking about going out and loving people, but how? How do I do it? Where do I go?” The other kind has included stories about how someone you know has been doing what we’ve talked about. Someone stops by to tell us about a friend who helps at a crisis pregnancy center. Another tells us about their inner-city ministry. Another sings the praises of the kids they work with in a Sunday School class.
Last year we organized the Shalom Project to raise money for local ministries. This year we didn’t feel like God was leading us to organize another project, but rather to celebrate what you have been doing in the thousands of little ways that many of you have worked to send the love of God to others. Our hope is that this blog-site will be filled with stories of people who are loving with movement. Whether it's local or international, we want to hear about how students and others are loving people all over this world. Our hope is that this might be a way to stir creativity and spur each other on as we seek to love those around us. So tell your friends, tell your families, and post your stories here! And keep in mind, love sends.
Note: This blog is designed to provide a venue for students to share creative ideas of how to love others. Breakaway Ministries does not endorse any specific organizations mentioned in the following comments.
