Today, we're pleased to share with you an audio essay written and read by Jamie Dunlop entitled

Seven Tips for Loving Those People in Your Church.

Jamie is the author of Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy, Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in Your Church from Crossway.

Seven Tips for loving those people in your church, written and read by Jamie Dunlop.

What do you do with those people in your church, the ones who drive you crazy?

Maybe it's their vocal political opinions,

maybe it's a personality that gets under your skin, maybe it's a particular lack of appreciation or sensitivity to your culture, maybe it's someone who's always critical of you in ways that

seem wrong-headed, and then of course there are the people who have hurt you. You know Paul's words in 1 Corinthians 12 that the parts of the body that seem to be weaker

or indispensable.

But couldn't some of those people be indispensable to someone else's church body instead?

What do you do with those people in your church?

This struggle is no accident.

Jesus said that all people will know we are his followers if you have love for one another. But if love at church were easy, how would that testify to the

power of his saving work in our lives? Is Jesus asked in Luke 632, if you love those who love you,

what benefit is that to you? What does that say about the

transforming power of Jesus in your life? And so Jesus says, love your enemies and do good and lend,

expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the most

high, for he is kind to the ungrateful

and the evil be merciful even as your father is merciful Luke 635 and 36 if we're to love our

enemies surely we're to love those people at, even the ones who drive us crazy.

So how can we do that?

Consider seven ideas drawn from Paul's teaching near the end of the book of Romans

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