8 Ways We Normalize the Abnormal | Crossway Articles

God has made it clear that the norm for his children should be love. It is the thing that the listening and watching world should know us for. We should be recognized not only for the purity of our theology but also for the consistency of our love. This love is the new commandment that Jesus left with his disciples in his final days with them: “that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” (John 13:34). The standard for our responses to one another is not just some standard of cultural niceness or human love. The standard is nothing less than the generous, sacrificial, pure, forgiving, and faithful love that God has so graciously showered down on us in the person of his Son.

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because of the clarity of his call to love and his promise to us of empowering grace, there are things that we cannot allow to be normalized in our everyday responses to one another.

1. The normalization of emotionally driven responses.
2. The normalization of anger-driven responses.
3. The normalization of disrespectful responses.
4. The normalization of self-righteous responses.
5. The normalization of vengeful responses.
6. The normalization of individualism.
7. The normalization of the love of controversy.
8. The normalization of tribalism.

Source: 8 Ways We Normalize the Abnormal | Crossway Articles

Good words from Paul Tripp.