Fearing Bravely : Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies (Paperback)
Fearing Bravely : Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies (Paperback)
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Catherine McNiel

Fearing Bravely : Risking Love for Our Neighbors, Strangers, and Enemies (Paperback)

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Jesus commands us to love our neighbors. So why are so many Christians taught to fear their neighbors? The American church is known as a people who are afraid, who have been nurtured through fear into hatred, and who have moved from hatred to violence—or at least to neglect. This fear, too often lived out boldly in the name of Jesus, is a false religion.

God instructs us to welcome strangers. We are not to withhold hospitality or help from anyone in need. So why do we fear strangers, especially those needing hospitality, afraid that their presence may threaten what we have?

Jesus taught us to love our enemies. We are to pray for those who actively harm us. Instead, we create enemies in our minds, seeing anyone who thinks, believes, looks, or lives differently from us as dangerous, a threat to our way of living.

The Christian community exists to declare and demonstrate God’s love and to follow Jesus in practicing love over fear, even in unsafe times and places. It’s time to reclaim our brave fear of God and risk transformative love for the sake of our neighbors, the strangers among us, and our enemies.

We are people of the Kingdom. Fearing Bravely teaches us that we have nothing to fear. Instead, we can respond to our fear problem with a brave love that emerges from choosing to let our fear of God overcome our fear of everything else.

Catherine McNiel writes with conviction, wisely guiding us to recognize our fear and, with God's help, not let it limit us to love courageously all who are among us.
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Feb 8, 2022
Stacey
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Fresh Insight on Following the Call to Love Others

I didn't know how much I needed this book until I started reading it! We are living in an era in which so many of us feel isolated and disconnected from the people around us. Catherine's words are spurring me to step out of my comfort zone, push through my introverted fears, and connect with the people God has placed in my life in deeper ways. Fearing Bravely is an incitement to reframe the way we perceive those we don't understand. I'm learning to take small, practical steps toward carrying the love of Christ to my neighbors and beyond. Most of all, this book is reigniting my passion for living out my faith! I'm learning to put the teaching of Christ into action on an everyday basis, and this journey is breathing fresh wind into my Christian walk!

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Feb 8, 2022
Matthew
5 out of 5 stars review

Gives us a better understanding what loving others

Catherine takes a command that we know well - to love our neighbors, strangers, and enemies - helps us better understand it and apply it to our lives. She asks us to set aside our fear of those who are different and to reach out with brave love. This is not a feel good book about just spreading love out into the world, Catherine admits that it will be hard, but worth it. Each section ends with Brave Steps - that give reflection/discussion questions, practices, and art to look or listen to that help illustrate what you have learned. There were two parts that I will carry with me. The first is that we need to love our enemies - but that does not mean putting ourselves in bad situations or in to stay in traumatic situations. We can love our enemies from afar and pray for them. The second one is a beautiful description about being the salt and the light - not too much or not too little. Her descriptions and deeper knowledge help me to see these descriptions clearer and deeper than before. Catherine's words will stay with me and I hope the continue to compel me to risk love and fear bravely.

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Feb 11, 2022
TomC
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A much-needed message for followers of Jesus

Following Jesus is not a safe path that we maintain through fear and hate. No, following Jesus is about taking risks to show love and compassion for our neighbors, for strangers and even our enemies. Catherine McNiel's Fearing Bravely encouraged me, challenged me and revealed true insights into God and His character. I really needed to read this book for my own spiritual health, and I am so glad that I did. I have renewed resolve and courage to love my neighbors and to take practical steps to live out the teachings of Jesus. I believe this is also a much-needed message for the Church today. We have surrendered far too much ground to fear and hate. It is time to turn our hearts to loving, even (and especially!) when it is hard. I strongly encourage others to read this book. Read it with a friend or a group, and let's start putting it into practice!

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