"He will speak to the heart"

A friend gave me a bit of paper with the heading "1 Corinthians 13: A Guide to Culture" . It was a good reminder. Here are the best bits:

"...Love endures long hours of language study, and is kind to those who mock his accent; love does not envy those who stayed home; love does not exalt her home culture, is not proud of his national superiority.

Love does not boast about the way we do it back home, does not seek his own ways, is not easily provoked into telling about the beauty of her home country, does not thing evil about this culture.

Love bears all criticisms about his home culture, believes all good things about this new culture, confidently anticipates being at home in this place, endures all inconveniences.

Love never fails; but where there is cultural anthropology, it will fail; where there is contextualisation, it will lead to syncretism; where there is linguistics, it will change.

...Now we adapt to this culture awkwardly; but He will live in it intimately; now I speak with a strange accent, but He will speak to the heart.

And now these three remain; cultural adaptation, language study, and love. But the greatest of these is love."