Love
By
Pastor Fred Naumann
The Greek is a very precise language. There are 3 words for love. Eros is a passionate love. Philos is a love for friends. Agape is Christian love. And Christian love has various aspects.
There is the desire for then highest good. One gives the best and aims to bring out best. It lifts not sinks another.
There is a deliberate effort to be good to another. It is a personal, practical participation with another.
Grace and mercy are products of this love.
It is a response to another’s need
It loves the unlovely. It can reach out to the enemy.
It requires maturity.
It is like then love of God.
It is a divinely created and empowered from above.