Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
The runaway New York Times bestseller!
Can a simple concept shift your entire world? Bob certainly thinks so. When it comes to loving your neighbors, rather than focusing on having the "right answers" or checking the "right boxes," what if you decide to simply DO love? To shamelessly show love and grace to those around you? What would that look like?
It might look like spending sixteen days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. It might look like taking your kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. It might look like taking a road trip with a stressed-out college student--even though you just got married a few days before.
In Love Does, Bob shows you:
- how to live a fully engaged life
- how to stop putting things off until "next time" and instead find your place of imagination, whimsy, and wonder today
- that God usually chooses ordinary people to get things done
When love does, life gets interesting. Light and fun, unique and profound, the lessons drawn from Bob's life and attitude in this collection of stories just might inspire you to be secretly incredible, too. If you love Love Does, don't forget to check out Everybody, Always and Dream Big for more of Bob's delightful and inspiring stories!
Top Highlights
“I remember reading this quote from C. S. Lewis where he says, ‘It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.’” (source)
“Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about—full of abandon, whimsy, and in love. I want to be engaged to life and with life.” (source)
“Nevertheless, He wouldn’t stop. That’s what love does—it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you’ll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.” (source)
“Actually, the real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride. He asks if we’ll give up that thing we’re so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He’s asking us, ‘Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?’” (source)
“Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
- Author: Goff, Bob
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781400203765
Reviews
1 rating
Robert Keil
12/31/2022
Some readers may argue that this is a light read, but the topic and discussion are deeply rooted in what it means to be a follower of Jesus . After all Jesus told us we would know His disciples by their love. This book takes a fresh look at how Christ's love compels us to love one another. I laughed at some of the lessons the author learned about God's love not through the high times, but rather through some costly and embarassing failures and I marveled at the height, depth and breadth that love goes to express itself when it is no longer a noun but used as a verb.
