My wife and I were discussing this topic this morning and this word constrain fell upon our hearts… Here lies the beauty of it all! For the love of Christ controls (constrains, compels) us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised… It is God’s agape Love that compels man’s hearts and desires. For the child of God ... more »