By Christopher Reese
“What’s love got to do with it?” The answer to Tina Turner’s iconic question, from a Christian perspective, is “Just about everything.” Scripture tells us God is love (1 John 4:8), that the first fruit of the Spirit is love (Galatians 5:22), and that among the things that will last forever into eternity, love is the greatest (1 Corinthians 13:13).
Yet, we encounter a constant barrage of messages about love from the world around us that run counter to the biblical perspective. We can easily absorb these and believe love is mainly about our feelings. We can fail to grasp the true nature of God’s love he desires us to imitate, and wonder what this love really looks like in practice. We may subconsciously ponder whether a brother or sister in Christ actually deserves our love and thus fail to walk in the light of life (1 John 3:14; 1 John 2:9-10).
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- The true meaning of the biblical term for God’s love—the Greek word agapē.
- How to understand and apply Paul’s description of love in 1 Corinthians 13.
- What Jesus meant when he said, “As I have loved you, so you must love one another” (John 13:34-35).
- The often-overlooked details of Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) and what they mean for us.
- How love leads to abundant life and a life lived in the light.
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