life on life in Love INC

I spoke about Love INC at an area church on Sunday and showed a clip from a dvd that National Love INC provides their affiliates. The dvd shares two stories...one of a family being helped from the brink of bankruptcy by a Love INC network, and the second story of a woman who had a past of chemical addiction, had been helped through Love INC, and was now clean and serving full-time in a furniture ministry at a Love INC affiliate.

These stories showcase Love INC at its best. The first story had a wonderful testimony of a friendship built between a married couple and a Love INC volunteer who used his passion of accounting to help the family create a budget, hold them accountable, and coach them financially. More than that, the husband began to read the Gospel of John at the encouragement of their Love INC friend, and all would say that their relationship helped them grow spiritually.

So, as nice as it is that Love INC might be able to serve as a coordinating crossroads for someone's used living room furniture and someone who could use living room furniture, the ministry of Love INC will ultimately be as successful as the transforming relationships that will be built through it. Distribution of goods and services will not a transformed community make. We can already see that if we just look out at our community. It will be reconciled relationships between people and God (people finding their identities in Christ and their calling through Him) and between person and person that will restore a community to wholeness.

That's my prayer for Love INC..that Christian community would be built among those who enter into the ministry of Love INC so that all involved would experience the love of Christ in such a supernatural way that they give glory to our Father in Heaven.