Excerpt from Love and the Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World by D. A. Carson in The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, John Piper and Justin Taylor, General Editors:
"... Christians reading these words [John 17] toward the end of the first century ... were exuberantly thanking God that Jesus' prayer was being fulfilled before their eyes, as men and women were being converted from many tribes and tongues and peoples and languages, and were loving each other for Jesus' sake. Of course, this love is still far from perfect: nothing in these dimensions is perfect until consummation. But Jesus' glorious prayer "that they may be one" is manifestly being answered to a superlative degree in the confessional church around the world today, as Christians bask in God's love and understand that all of our love is but a grace-driven response to the intra-Trinitarian love of God which has issued in the glorification of the Son by means of the cross, in the Son's perfect obedience to his Father, all the way to the cross."
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