The love of Christ is not some emotional feeling that comes and goes. The love of Christ is a powerful, active principle of grace that arrests us… that conquers and suppresses our sinful tendencies… and then presses and urges holiness, zeal, service, and sacrifice.
John Calvin, Commentary on 2 Corinthians – ‘…that measureless love of Christ towards us…ought to constrain our affections, that they may go in no other direction than that of loving him in return… every one that truly considers and ponders that wonderful love, which Christ has manifested towards us by his death, becomes, as it were, bound to him, and constrained (to)… devote himself (or herself) wholly to His service.’
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
