Love is a Verb: Following Jesus with More Than Words
There’s a strange thing that can happen when you’ve been around church long enough: you get good at sounding like a Christian. You know the words. You know the posture. You know the rules. But sometimes, even when we are religiously fluent, we miss the point. In this second entry in the Love is a Verb series, I’m reflecting on something I see in Scripture — and try to be aware of in myself: it’s easier to talk about following Jesus than it is to actually follow Him. In Matthew 7, Jesus said something that ought to stop us in our tracks: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). That’s not about perfection — it’s about direction. Following Jesus is more than showing up to the right places or holding the right opinions. It's more than saying the right things or hanging around the "right" people. The real evidence of our faith is found in how we live, how we love...