Love Like That by Les Parrott III

Love Like That by Les Parrott III ISBN-13: 9781400207817 Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson Released: Sept. 4, 2018

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through Amazon Vine.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Dr. Les Parrott writes a viable prescription for becoming more loving with family, friends, coworkers, and even strangers. In his trademark approachable style, Dr. Parrott takes the latest findings from psychology and sociology and blends them with biblical teaching to reveal five transformative ways of relating to people demonstrated by Jesus himself: being mindful, approachable, grace-filled, bold, and self-giving. With questions to ponder, self-assessments, and insightful quotations, Love Like That will revolutionize every relationship in your life—especially the ones that matter most.


My Review:
Love Like That is about how Jesus loved others and what stands in the way of our loving like he did. Being focused on achieving our own agenda gets in the way of seeing the needs of others. Pride and the desire to be part of the "in" crowd stands in the way of people feeling like they can approach us. The desire to feel like we're better than others stands in the way of our showing love to those who don't deserve it. Fear and the desire to be accepted stands in the way of our telling the truth and living transparent lives. Selfishness stands in the way of our thinking about others before thinking about ourselves. He ended by explaining that loving like Jesus is impossible in our own effort and how to allow Jesus to love others through us (through the power of the Holy Spirit).

The author described studies that illustrate how people act. He also quoted Scripture (in a paraphrase version) and summarized events in Jesus life to illustrate his points. I didn't like that he sometimes slipped his own speculation about motives and such into his summaries without pointing out that these were his ideas and weren't actually stated in the Bible. However, I would recommend this easy, quick read because his main points were good and useful.


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