Hearing Becomes Believing: Love becomes contagious

The house lights come up, the guitars fade, and a stadium shouts, “I am the one that Jesus loves.” That electric moment from Brad Arnold of Three Doors Down launches a candid, soul-level journey through how faith actually takes root: someone speaks, someone hears, and something in the heart awakens.

We dig into Romans 10 with clear, practical language. Paul’s chain is simple and heavy: people can’t call on Christ without believing, can’t believe without hearing, and can’t hear without someone speaking. That’s why testimonies matter and why the proclaimed word about Jesus—his death, resurrection, and lordship—still changes lives. We explore the tension between access and response, how hearing moves beyond sound into understanding and trust, and why ordinary conversations can carry eternity’s weight. Along the way, we point to real stakes—addiction, illness, hope—and the audacity of telling a crowded venue that love has a name.

Then we pivot to a powerful reading from Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World, Scroll IX, treating love as both strategy and safeguard. Love greets the day, refuses gossip, praises quickly, and guards the gates of body, mind, soul, and heart. It opens doors logic can’t, shields us from bitterness, and trains us to act with courage and tenderness in the same breath. Whether you lead a team, parent a child, or walk into a room of strangers, this is a field guide for living a message people can hear.

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