For Jesus, often real ministry was the person he found standing in front of him.

And so sometimes we need to ask ourselves, who is that for me today?

Is it a toddler who is asking me to fill their sippy cup for the 10th time that day? Is it my neighbor who's

grieving? Is it my coworker? Who's standing in front of me? Not worrying about the

thing, the great-grand thing I'm on my way to do but knowing

when God's kind of tapping me on the heart saying stop notice this person especially

notice that person who least expects to be seen that's what Jesus did That's Karen Eman and she'll have more insights

about how you can better love God and love people on today's focus on the

family. Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.

John, kindness when it's received is rarely forgotten by that person.

It's one of the great secrets of loving your neighbor.

Very few people, I've never met anybody that's been harassed into the kingdom of God.

You know, I'll say it in an audience, has anybody been beaten or verbally harassed into the kingdom of God?

Never once has a hand gone up, you know, those Christians treated me so poorly I became

one of them. It's usually unusual love and kindness that opens a crusty heart to the

possibility that God is. And today we're going to expand on that and talk about

listen, love, and repeat. A great book by one of our favorite guests, Karen Eman, and let's set it up with 1st John 412. If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is

perfected in us and that should be the cry of each of our hearts that God's love would abide in us and that others would

come into relationship with God because of the love they experience from us, which is from the father.

Yeah, and Karen Eeman works for Proverbs 31 ministries.

She has three adult children and has written a number of books.

Jim, you mentioned the title of Listen, Love, and Repeat. The subtitle is Other Centered

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