Multiplying Love

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Vision of United Methodist Life Together.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Our world needs love during these desperate days of radical polarization and division. Our United Methodist churches yearn to embrace love more completely because God first loved us. Our faith (including doctrine) is important; Christian hope (including renewal) is important; love of God and neighbor is more important. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Multiplying Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> underscores what matters most and stands in contrast to divisive misreadings of essential Methodist teachings. Chilcote helps us embrace anew the Wesleyan vision of love of Jesus as central to what we believe and how we live.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When I finished </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Multiplying Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> I found myself jumping up and down shouting Yes yes yes! Gosh do we need this! We are at a remaking moment in the church. Dr. Chilcote beautifully articulates the deeper theological vision that beckons and sustains us. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Multiplying Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> helped me more thoroughly embrace the kind of loving people we are hoping to become. That's what it's all about to me and this book nails it!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Rev. Christy Allen Holden co-creator of The Channel UMC a new hybrid community of faith (@christyallenholden)</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Every United Methodist pastor would do well to invite their church council to read Paul Chilcote's brief and powerful </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Multiplying Love</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. It recalls the power of the Wesleyan approach to the gospel and makes a compelling case for the future of The United Methodist Church. I loved this book!</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Rev. Adam Hamilton Kansas pastor and author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Wrestling with Doubt Finding Faith</em></p>