Just Love

A book full of passion and practicality, exploring the just love that led and held Jesus to the cross.

Clear, powerful and authentic. A must-read book for Christians who are serious about changing lives and communities.

Life in my inner city parish in Liverpool is full of tensions and demands. Alongside the disorder and struggle sit moments of joy and hope in a place where need is very evident. Within the busyness that we can all get caught up in, I know that I can be in danger of being swept along in the activity, not pausing to reflect and most of all forgetting the essential act of listening. Sometimes we need help to do that, and within this book, as it moves from reflection on Scripture to the affirming stories from varied and different places, I have found this. In some places I have been reminded of things I knew but too often have forgotten, and in other places challenged to risk more in the knowledge that we are loved and called to share and live out that love.

I am grateful that Paul and Angus have written this book because they are both able to draw upon rich experience and connections with people who give insight and understanding. Most of all, this book has stirred me to think and reflect further on love which is at the heart of the gospel and, as Lesslie Newbigin said, 'The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed.'