“Power cannot generate love. Power can generate
obedience, fear, awe, grudging submission — but not love. The God who comes to
us in Jesus doesn’t want grudging submission; he wants us to love him and be
loved by him. He wants relationship, including friendship, and so he came in vulnerability,
not in power.”— Scott Dudley, senior pastor at Bellevue Presbyterian Church in
Bellevue, Wash., quoted by Peter Wehner, “
Why Jesus Loved Friendship,” The
New York Times, Dec. 24, 2022
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