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Passionate Love is a must read for all couples who desire to create and maintain a lasting love and passion filled marriage. In Passionate Love, Pastor George Mwansa outlines how husbands ought to love their wives by systematically drawing lessons from Christ's love for the church. He also gives wives guidelines on how to submit to their husbands – God's way.
Passionate Love is a must read for all couples who desire to create and maintain a lasting love and passion filled marriage. In Passionate Love, Pastor George Mwansa outlines how husbands ought to love their wives by systematically drawing lessons from Christ's love for the church. He also gives wives guidelines on how to submit to their husbands – God's way.
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Chapter<br />
PASSIONATE <strong>LOVE</strong><br />
22<br />
How did Christ love the church? Christ loved the Church, His bride,<br />
passionately. He came from heaven where He was heaven's beloved<br />
Commander “to seek and to save what was lost” [Luke 19:10]. Heaven,<br />
the place where our Creator lives, is the most beautiful and glorious place<br />
in the universe. On the contrary, our earth, marred and polluted by sin,<br />
could be said to be the ugliest habitable place in the universe. Jesus left<br />
the most beautiful place for the most deplorable and despicable one in<br />
order to save His bride. His commitment to this unenviable task is seen<br />
in His declaration to a teacher of the law who came to Him seeking to<br />
follow Him: “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son<br />
of Man has no place to lay his head” [Matthew 8:20]. It mattered not that<br />
He would have no place to lay His head. He would nevertheless come<br />
and pursue His bride until she was secure in His arms. Surely that's<br />
passionate love – that's commitment.<br />
Christ's love was not just fervent, but focused. He was clear about who the<br />
bride was. Consequently He “wore,” as it were, blinkers to ensure He<br />
was not distracted by any allurement as He pursued His prized goal. He
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