Community Christian Church

The love of Christ isn’t soft and sentimental. It’s not therapeutic moralism wrapped in Christian language. Paul knew that. From a Roman prison cell, he didn’t pray for comfort; he prayed for transformation. In this passage, we’re not given a warm devotional. We’re handed a blueprint for transformation. And at the center is the love of Christ. But His love is not the kind the world defines. This love doesn’t merely soothe or affirm you; it reconstructs you. It lays a new foundation, reorders your affections, confronts your idols, and fortifies your inner life so that Christ can dwell fully in you. You were not made to survive on shallow encouragement. You were made to be filled with all the fullness of God. And it all begins with one step: surrender.