Is there an appropriate response to "Jesus Loves You"?

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Is there an appropriate response to “Jesus Loves You”?

One either returns with another such compliment or one increases the value return so to speak.

One could respond as such:

Jesus loves you too!

Or something similar to the following.

Jesus loves all (mankind)!

Let us always recall the words of St. John the Apostle:

16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. - John 3: 16

Ken Graham 65224

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While I haven't had this particular experience, I'm pretty sure that an average person who attends my church would be likely to respond with "Amen." My church isn't very ritualized, though, so a variety of responses would be possible, even likely.

"Amen" would be common and I can't think of any other specific response that I could expect to hear--I think any other response would be highly individualistic.

Scott Severance 203

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This calls for a rapid, pithy, meaningful, unambiguous (choose any four) response as the truck begins to recede into the distance :-)!

I suggest a loud immediate

"Hallelujah!"

Arm raised in air / "fist pump" A smile helps.

The following are somewhat related.
They need to be 'meaningful' and not just ritual formula to be useful:

To the more mundane and usual "have a good evening / afternoon / rest of your day" from cashiers and similar I usually respond ~= "And you too" (or similar - loudly enough to (hoepfully) be recognised.
That's would not be overly meaningful in either challenge or response, except, that most people do NOT respond to this standard salutation at all, so any response at all is more likely to be noticed.

When leaving any brief casual encounter with a stranger / friend I hadn't met I try to say "God bless you". This very seldom meets with overt negative response, moderately often meets with no response but often enough to be worthwhile results in a positive reaction.

I'm an older than young 'white' guy. A degree of discernment is accordingly needed, but, I try to smile at strangers who I walk past.
A gratifying amount of the time this results in a returned smile - often with a quite surprised initial look, followed by a response of (what usually seems to be) pleasure - probably that someone actually took the time and effort to flash a visual 'hello" in our usually ships-in-the-night public world.

Casual interaction with strangers can be a lot of fun. This can be at a somewhat below Good Samaritan / Jedi Master level and still form a useful part of the fabric of and-your-neighbour-as-yourself. One can be useful along the way. The old grey guy has a fair bit of fun in the process.

Russell McMahon 231

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I guess if I was in Italy and someone said "Jesus loves you" in Latin, I might reply "et tu frater" or "et tu sorror". Don't know if I could get away with "Jesus te amo" or if that would give out the wrong signal, though.

In English, I would probably respond with "You too, brother" or "You too, sister". Or perhaps "Such love! Amazing love!" accompanied by a great big smile and a cheery wave.