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Jun 6, 2016 · 1. Love is a long-term disposition. Christian love is a broad, long-term personal disposition or trait. Love goes far beyond a single relationship, a particular action, and is surely something deeper than a short-term emotion. Love isn’t just about what we do, but also about who we are. 2. Loving people desire the good for all.
Aug 8, 2022 · Christian love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others, and that joy is a blood-bought joy from the death of Jesus. So, the first difference between secular love and Christian love is that our love is rooted in and is the overflow of the work of Christ and its effects in our lives.
This places him not as far as might appear from his more famous fellow-countryman and opponent, Søren Kierkegaard – author of the nineteenth century’s most sustained reflection on Christian love, Works of Love (1995) – for whom love was ‘sheer action’, but as such quite different from busy distraction and wholly dependent on the inward God-relationship (1995: 98–99 [vol. 16]).
Aug 21, 2023 · Answer. The Bible contains numerous verses on love, including 1 Peter 4:8, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”. The instruction to prioritize love first appears in 1 Peter 1:22 and is emphasized again in the fourth chapter. Peter’s use of the phrase above all underscores the importance of ...
Oct 8, 2007 · The most important contrast to self-love is Christian, Christ centered, love. We seek the interests of others because in the most radical way we seek the things of Christ. Without this quest for the things of Christ, you are a person without love and thus without meaning, dignity, and value (1 Cor. 13:1-3).
Oct 18, 2019 · John affirmed that love for Christ is authenticated by obedience to Christ (John 14:15–23). He also pointed out that love for fellow Christians is the defining mark of true Christianity (John 13:34–35) and the dividing line between God’s children and Satan’s children (1 John 3:4–10). But John’s theology of love never softened his ...
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Jun 24, 2016 · The reason we will love others best when we love God most is that love in its truest, purest form only comes from God, because God is love (1 John 4:7–8). Love is a fundamental part of his nature. We are only able to love him or anyone else because he first loved us (1 John 4:19). We are only able to give freely to others what we have ...
