Wayne Jacobsen on love beyond performance.

About this episode

Wayne Jacobsen discusses the transformative power of God's love beyond performance and shares personal stories of faith and resilience.

There are moments in life that expose what we really believe. A cancer diagnosis. A fractured relationship. A loss we never saw coming. In this conversation with Wayne Jacobsen, we talk about what happens when faith moves beyond performance and becomes a lived experience of God's love. Wayne shares deeply personal stories—from surviving a cancer diagnosis to navigating one of the most painful seasons of his 51-year marriage—and reveals how God's presence met him in places where easy answers could not. For decades, Wayne has invited people to move beyond religious striving and into a relationship rooted in love. His newest book, Just Love, explores a powerful truth: righteousness isn't about earning God's approval. It's about learning to receive His love and allowing that love to transform how we see and treat others. This conversation challenged me personally. We discussed the difference between living for love and living from love, how God often takes the initiative long before we recognize it, and why genuine compassion grows out of being deeply loved ourselves. In this episode, we discuss: Why do so many of us spend years trying to earn a love God has already given? The…

People in this episode

Host: Let My People Go

Guest: Wayne Jacobsen

Topics covered

• faith
• God's love
• performance
• relationship
• compassion
• trauma

Keywords

• faith
• God's love
• performance-based faith
• relationship
• compassion
• trauma
• cancer diagnosis
• marriage

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Just Love

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