Can you recall a time in your life when someone has said something to you that changed the way you saw the world? . . .

A few years ago, I was preparing to teach at a recovery ministry event. A fellow leader and I were discussing some nuances on how I could best communicate a key point. This may seem a bit obscure, but he shared a phrase from the Protestant Reformation that forever shifted my thinking. These words have both haunted my theological point of view and given me great comfort ever since. It’s the crescendo statement of Martin Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, “God’s love does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it.” . . . Let it seep into your bones.

Matt Johnson, Getting Jesus Wrong, 102-103.