LOVE: EXPRESSED explores what it means to live a faith that is an expression and extension of the generous love that God has already shown towards us, while guiding us away from a faith which seeks to extract something from God via our performance.
This isn’t another one of those ‘self-help’ manuals.
This isn't a book about romance and sex, or feelings and cuddles.
This isn't a guidebook offering relationship advice, giving tips on how to find 'love' and 'look after' it.
In those senses, this isn't even a book about love.
It's a book about life—every part of it. About how it should be lived, how it should be explored, how it should be expressed. This is a book about meaning, about life's trajectories. It's about God. It's about you. It's about them. In that sense, this is all about love.
But if I could capture here what I mean by 'love' in that sense, I wouldn't have needed to write a book.
Tristan Sherwin has written a smart and beautiful book showing us that Jesus Christ is the love of God expressed as a human life. This is the life we are called to imitate; this life of love is what we are made for. Love: Expressed is intensely rooted in Scripture, but drawing upon contemporary culture (film and music, with a smattering of physics), Sherwin's book is comfortably at home in the post-Christendom world of the 21st century.
Refreshing, authentic, inspiring, and yet practical—Tristan is a breath of fresh air. His winsome prose and posture as a fellow traveller invites us deeper into the adventure of daily discipleship. Highly recommended.
Love: Expressed is a work of dirt-under-your-fingers spirituality.
[Taken from the foreword to Love: Expressed]
