For adults
Learning to Live in the Love You Already Have
RICH VAN PROYEN
You believe God loves you. Why can’t you feel it?
A plain-spoken walk through 1 John and the life of the apostle John, for the Christian who knows the doctrine of God’s love and has never been able to feel it.
Hardcover direct from this site. Print and Kindle on Amazon.
About the book
You know the verse. You have taught it to other people. You can hand the love of Christ to a hurting friend and mean every word of it. Then you go home and cannot say it about yourself.
Be-Loved is a book about that gap. Not the gap between you and God. The gap between what you know and what you feel.
The gap is not your fault, and trying harder was never going to close it. You cannot earn a passive verb. Beloved is a name the Father speaks over you before you do anything. It is the name He spoke over His own Son at the water, before a single day of ministry.
To show you, Rich Van Proyen walks one letter and one life. The apostle John began as a son of thunder, the man who asked for the best seat in the kingdom. He ended as the old man who signed his name the disciple Jesus loved. Sixty years between the two. The same love, finally received.
Who it is for
Written for the tired ones
This book is for you if you have been the engine of your church for years and you are quietly running on empty. It is for the pastor, the elder, the volunteer who pours out love all week and cannot receive it. It is for the reader who has read Nouwen and Lewis and Manning, knows every word, and still cannot feel the one thing they were all pointing at.
And it is for the person you keep thinking about as you read this. Buy one for them too.
Built to be used
Read it alone or walk it with a group
This one is written to be read. Plain sentences. One argument that goes somewhere. You will finish it, and so will the people you give it to.
The final chapters hand you tools you can use. An audit that catches duty pretending to be love. A test for whether love has taken a shape in your life. Reflection questions in every chapter. A group can walk the whole book in twelve weeks.
What readers are saying
Praise for Be-Loved
Be-Loved names the ache of every believer who knows the doctrine and still cannot feel it, then walks you, slowly and gently, from believing you are loved to actually living there.
Scott V. Black
A gentle and deeply penetrating invitation to discover the reality of a love so vast we are continually expanding our territory of understanding.
Dr. Gaylon Claunch
An invitation to step into a truth so profound yet so simple and life-changing: You are deeply and fully loved by God.
Kris Bornman
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You have spent years holding everyone else up. Let this be the book that holds you.
Beloved. Be loved.
Rich Van Proyen 