ReadersMagnet Review: Radio Interview with Kate Delaney featuring Joe Huebscher

by ReadersMagnet | February 14, 2020 | radio interview | 0 Comments

America Tonight with Kate Delaney features Joe Huebscher. Joe is the author of the book Agape: The Love of God.

In this 11-and-a-half minute interview, Joe Huebscher
discusses his personal life, teaching career, and spiritual journey towards
conceptualizing his book. In it, He imparts to listeners his journey towards
spiritual healing and true happiness, and provides an in-depth analysis of his
interpretation of Agape.

Early years

In this portion, Joe opens up about his early life growing up
in Wisconsin among 12 children, being the second youngest. He recalls his older
brothers firing guns for target practice on the rural property where they grew
up, and living off the land with his family. Joe’s father was a refugee from
poverty in Switzerland who was given sufficient funds to come to the United
States while in his late teens, who then went to northern Wisconsin where land
was cheap, a dollar an acre. A big change came to his life when the family moved
to Minneapolis when he was fifteen. There he came to know the Lord and began his
Bible training in college and in seminary. Since 1991 he has been teaching by
invitation in various countries. In his last year of doing so he taught in
Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and India.

Agape: The
Love of God

Shortly after he came to know the Lord, he made it his
interest to figure out how to dedicate himself to the God, realizing that it is
the “greatest command”- to command one’s
self to love God. After seminary, he suggested this as a subject for his
thesis, although he was turned down and told that subject had already been
written about before. This prompted Joe to write a letter to his superiors to
show them that there were no published literatures on this particular subject
on any academic level, which convinced them to allow him to write his thesis.

Joe is convinced that there’s no accurate English translation
for what agape really is. He describes to Kate Delaney his perceived definition
of agape as giving yourself to
another for their own good, and that if one cannot give themselves to God
first, they cannot fully give themselves to someone else. He tells us that his
book, despite being a short one, is designed to explain that agape is not equal
to love in the warm, fuzzy, and emotional sense of the word. Joe tells us that
in the gospel of John, God is referred to by John as being agape.

Joe’s
teaching career

Joe’s tells us how his favorite place to teach always changed
depending on who he was teaching rather than the environment itself, as long as
people were interested in what he had to teach. He was in high school when he
began teaching Sunday school class, but when he finished his college seminary
degree in 1968, he began teaching the same year at a Baptist college, where he
remained for 8 years. At that point Joe tells us that God spoke to him,
redirecting his route to a seminary in Tennessee Temple where he taught there
until 1991. He didn’t have to wait long, because the Lord always had plans in
store for him. Letters and invites to teach all around the globe eventually
reached Joe, as his journey diversified through the guidance of the Lord.

For more information about Joe Huebscher’s Agape: The Love of God, visit the book’s Amazon page here at https://www.amazon.com/Agape-Love-God-Joe-Huebscher/dp/1950947548

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