Under the community's website topic "God is love" there are several good thoughts about love. Capitalized letters by me:
"Often people limit their love to people from their particular group of friends or family - according to their own criteria of who they find 'lovable'. To love EVERYONE means to want the best for everyone WITHOUT FAVOURITISM - not preferring some people more than others. Only this kind of love is selfless."
How do you love Gerald Kluge? I suppose that Gerald Kluge doesn't see our community's behaviour as love towards him. Let's go back to Mt 5's concept about love: even the most hostile enemy recognizes your words and deeds not as an aggression, when you would pray for him, when you would give your cloak. This enemy recognizes something he never had been confronted to,
Only through artificial grin we can say, that our community has done the best we could do - to show Kluge and his catholic church in front of God. I suppose, J.A.'s attitude, holding on to the scenery of Potemkin village, wasn't seen by Kluge as something special. Surely, Kluge has been confronted many times with several religious sects, who harp upon the same string, that just they are 'the pillar and foundation of the truth' (1 Timothy 3:15). It makes our community rather a subject to ridicule than gives honour to God. Denying obvious problems (e.g. concerning the question about marriage and sexual sins, see more detailed in chapter 6), which need honest admission and not closed eyes, our community is destined to decrease, to cease.
Another good thought under the same topic:
"Love is a commandment. It encourages us and gives us hope that it is possible to follow Jesus and to live in love, even today. He wouldn't have commanded this love if it were not possible. On our own, we would not be able to do it, but with his help, we can - we can fulfil the only real aim of life and find the only love which can fulfil us. This is what we were created for. Without it, life is empty and senseless."
Amen. But if you think, that in practice into this love are included also outsiders, than the following rows give the answer, who is the subject to this love:
And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them. (Acts 4:32)
We have the example of the first Christians in the book of Acts. They loved each other so much that it was very natural for them to share their whole lives, including their possessions. They learned this love from Jesus and the apostles. They met every day in their homes, and fought for one another's spiritual lives.
Again, it is clear hint, that you must have the 'common ground', you must be among them, to experience this love. Also some other statements about love, which I honestly would admit, lead sooner or later for community to the conclusions, that love brings all Christians into unity, i.e. into THEIR community, because they are the only and true church, others are experienced only as wrong. Enemies, who don't want to agree with community's teachings and won't have the 'common ground', must be satisfied with despise and 'loving admonishments' from community's side.
As explained, according to community's logic love to truth leads everybody (incl. enemies, I suppose) to the recognition, that there is only one church and de facto under it is meant the specific group, which G.Kluge calls with designation 'Holic group'. However it is with community's mindset concerning unity, Jesus didn't say, that we must show love, patience, warmness only to those, who 'let them love'.
Again, Jesus calls us to love EVERYONE, without FAVOURITISM. How it is possible?! Look again Mt 5:38-48. When we wouldn't limit our love with our primarily 'assessing' method, but would apply the love described in Mt 5:38-48, it seems not very impossible anymore. Why it is so supernatural or impossible to pray for enemies, to pray for Kluge, and to do other that kind of things that Jesus reccomends to do in Mt 5:38-48? Why doesn't community want to do it? I think, it is not, because it is too formalistic to pray for those, who percecute us, and to be warm towards your enemy, but it is hard to submit for community, to follow the principles of love described in Mt 5. Community wants to go on with the concept, that they are right and consecquently others are wrong and must be in the role of little stupid pupils, whose task is to cock their ears and listen, what community is saying.