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Friends, welcome back to the Ransomed Heart

podcast. I'm John Eldridge here with Craig McConnell. So glad that

you're joining in. This podcast concludes a series that we've been pursuing over

the last many weeks on relationship styles of relating what it

looks like to love. Last week's loving an evil person, very difficult. Time

flew by. We were shocked that our time was up when our

producer in the studio was saying, hey you guys got to wrap this up and we felt like

we were just getting going. So if you weren't listening in on last week we wanted to refer you to

Dan Allender and Trumper Longman's book Bold Love. Today and last podcast

want to talk about loving a fool as opposed to an evil person, where

we were describing an evil person as someone who is consciously and intentionally doing repeated harm. Furious or

vengeful when confronted. absolutely rejects any kind of discipline, hatred of exposure, understanding.

I mean a fool is someone who is blundering through life doing damage as opposed to the evil person who is

consciously and intentionally doing it. If you were listening in last week we were at the top of the recording we were

both laughing about a story we had read in the chapter loving a fool in Dan's book and we have

to read this to you because this will really get the conversation going.

What Dan says is, what does it mean to get out of the way of a fool's folly? The essence of love is not foolhardy sacrifice, but

judicious, well-planned disruption.

The fool must be caught so far out in the open,

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