Kingdom of Love

This is a challenging book. It directly addresses the issue of Christians not being able to get along, and gives us the "ABC's" of love - Acceptance, Bearing, Creative Prayer. There are some more historical tidbits from Hannah's very interesting life, and some very real spiritual challenges here. I come away disgusted with myself, but hopeful in a God big enough to change me!

I have read Hannah Hurnard's Hinds' Feet on High Places, but this one hit my heart as nothing I have read in a long time. There is so much division and judgment against one another in the Christian community and I see Hannah's revelation as the only answer for Unity in the Body of Christ. Return to your first love.

The very questions that nag at any Christian who has tried to walk as Jesus walked are faced in this wonderful small book. How can I love? How can I love people who I know are not perfect, not even good--how can I overlook their faults? How can I love without being a total hypocrite, or without being mindless? How can I pray for people in love? How can I be transformed? Will I have to wait till I die to be perfected in love? (see I John 4, 12 and 17--love HAS BEEN perfected in us!) Hannah Hurnard opens her heart and tells us that she struggled long and hard with these questions, and that she refused to accept the easy answers that leave so many of us feeling powerless, guilty, and half-alive. And she speaks plainly--no "reckoning", no "words of faith" that seem to just refuse to face reality. She has given me great hope.