Don Love

Background

About Don Love

Dr. Love spent almost two decades teaching New Testament at a major Christian university with up to students a semester. Increasingly, God taught him not simply to teach truth, but how to lead people to be empowered and transformed by the God of truth. He believes that the Gospel of Jesus is more than just the Gospel of the King, but the Gospel of the Kingdom (Matthew 4:23; Mark 1:14) and that we should not simply be looking to the not yet heaven for salvation, but to abide in God the Father through the Spirit in the now of the kingdom because of what Jesus has done. We do not need to wait until heaven to enter into the abundant life of Christ. He has made us worthy and he desires for us to prosper even as our soul prospers (3 Jn. This is the Gospel that was preached by Jesus and his disciples in the Gospels and the Apostles in Acts (8:12). There is an already/not yet about this kingdom. The kingdom is here in as much as the citizens of the kingdom are here and the kingdom of God is in us. It has been inaugurated with the coming of Jesus and the indwelling of the Spirit, but this kingdom is like a mustard seed that must grow and a little leaven that will work its way through the whole loaf (Mt. And so, as I lead my students, my concern is not merely to teach them the scriptures or to simply get them to acknowledge Jesus as their King, but for them to come to understand that this kingdom is like a pearl of great price that is worth selling everything else in order to obtain it (Mt 13).