Loving People When They Least Expect It

Posted by Pastor KyecloseAuthor: Pastor Kye Name: Kye S. Chung
Email: kye@binnerriem.org
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There are some leadership blogs that I follow on a regular basis and one of them is Mark Batterson, who is the pastor of National Community Church in DC. This week, he wrote a post about one of their core values and thought we could all learn from it:

We have a core value at NCC: love people when they least expect it and least deserve. Go ahead and love people when they expect it and deserve, but that doesn’t count for much. Buying someone a birthday gift or giving flowers on Valentine’s Day is like breaking even. Why? Because it’s expected and deserved.

If you really want to impact someone, love them when they have just made the biggest mistake of their life and they are surrounded by an angry mob with stones in their hands! Isn’t that what Jesus did to the woman caught in the act of adultery? He loved her when she least expected it and least deserved it. That is the example we need to follow.

I want my life to be about loving people and blessing people when they least expect it because that is how God loves us. He comes out of nowhere and surprises us with His amazing grace!

Would love for our community to model this!