If God is Love . . .

. . . [then] the only way we can worship God
is by loving others. The more we give love away,
the more we make the experience of God visible.
God is not a being, external to us;
God is experienced in the presence of love.

– John Shelby Spong
Excerpted from his forthcoming book,
Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation
Can Produce a Living Faith Today
HarperOne, 2018

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• A Return to the Spirit
• Move Us, Loving God
• Andrew Harvey on Radical, Divine Passion in Action
• Called to the Field of Compassion
• The Choice (and Risk) That Is Love
• Love as "Quest and Daring and Growth"
• Getting It Right
• The Longing for Love: God's Primal Beatitude
• Love as Exploring Vulnerability
• The Gravity of Love
• To Be Held and To Hold
• To Know and Be Known
• What We Mean by Love
• The Many Manifestations of God's Loving Embrace

Image: James R. Eads.