Ordered to Love: Recovering the Order of Affections from the Home to the Ends of the Earth 

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Ordered to Love: Recovering the Order of Affections from the Home to the Ends of the Earth

By: Alex Kocman

Founders Press, 2026  

198 pages  

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Summary

Many question how our love for our own—our families, churches, and nation—can overflow in love for the nations as Scripture indicates it should. In this book Alex Kocman argues that the path forward lies in recovering the biblical order of affections: loving first God, then the church, then our neighbors, our nation, and finally the nations who have yet to hear the gospel. The book offers a theological vision rooted in Scripture and historic Christian writers, showing how grace restores nature by reforming families, renewing the church, strengthening nations, and advancing the gospel to the ends of the earth. 


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