Labels are everywhere! We live in a world that labels everything from coffee cups and clothing to food ingredients and designer fashions.

While labels are helpful for certain things, they can be incredibly damaging when they define people—their value, character, or significance. Change must begin to take place. So, where do we begin? We begin by learning how to love without labels.

Few people understand this better than Barbara Newman. For more than 30 years, Barbara has provided education, inspiration, and transformation for churches and families typically disregarded by society. It is easy to place significant value on what one does, how one looks, where one lives, what one drives, or what one wears—all dependent on what we deem valuable. And when it comes to those who are different—those labeled as diseased, deformed, disabled, depressed, poor, weak—their lives are most often disregarded. Candidly, such attitudes and actions are thoroughly divergent from Christ’s model and teaching. Tragically, the church is not exempt from attaching labels.

We hope this interview that Colleen and Barbara shared in 2014 encourages you to examine where labels might exist in your life and in your church and how we can, as Christ's body, move beyond condemning labels.

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