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Auteur: WordTruth authors
Date: 11.11.2010
Category: Témoignage personnel, Formation de dirigeants, Intégrité et humilité
Friendships in families and ministry leadership tend to fragment when the glue holding them together is feeling-based “love.” This type of “love” takes little effort and requires almost no attention, since it is self-oriented and dependent on others for personal gratification. In other words, feeling-oriented love is linked to what we believe others think about us, how others treat us, or how they “make us feel.” On the other hand, love from God’s point of view is sacrificial.
Mots-clés: love, sacrifice, leaders, spiritual maturity, growing in love, witness, integrity, integrity, servanthood
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True Love can only be obtained by understanding the Love that God has for the world. This is demonstrated by Christ in His love for the church. If we will love others as God loved the world, (as found in John 3:16) and as Christ loved the Church (giving Himself for her). Only then will we truly grasp what true love really means and be able to love others as Christ loves us.
12.11.2011
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I like this article. I agree with the true love as it regards to Christ. but I disagree to a certain degree when people are involved. Because we are human...feelings play a part in love. Human decency, I guess, could be express as a result in true love of Christ. People tend to let reciprocity and the feelings of it determine how long they will continue to love...thy neighbor.
15.04.2011
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@ JourneywithCHRISTie:
You are right JourneywithCHRISTie...People tend to let reciprocity and the feelings of it determine how long they will continue to love...thy neighbor... We as mature Christians need to get to a place where we accept that God gives reciprocity for keeping His commandments. Keeping His commandments has nothing to do with what we FEEL like doing.
18.07.2011
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I agree with you that perfect love is only with the love of Christ. If God had shown humanity the feelings that it deserved, we would all be in bad shape and heading for eternal punishment. But graciously through Christ God showed us the correct way to love someone.
11.07.2011
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@ MzBoom:
God showed us his grace, mercy, and love, when he sent his only begotten son, Jesus Christ. You are right we did not deserve God’s love. We also did not deserve the salvation offered by grace. We are all wretches because of our sins.
16.07.2011
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@ MzBoom:
Not only is it hard to show that kind of love to people, but it’s way harder to explain to people why you want to love them at all. Sometimes I find myself judging people (like people who’ve committed horrible crimes), and I tell myself that they deserve what they got, and, while that may be true, that’s not the task I’ve been given through Christ. The best example, I think, is when Bin Laden was killed, and I was happy, since I thought he deserved it. That may have been true, but I had a hard time with it, because I knew I shouldn’t be rejoicing in the death of another human being. Getting that through my head is hard enough, but explaining it to another person is almost impossible...especially when the person is hostile to it.
16.07.2011
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Mzboom I agree with you that God has shown us the correct way to love. I truly thank God for that because the way the world loves as stated is a lovethat is a selfish love. How can we know god’s kind of love? We can only know God’s kind of love by relationship with him. We can know God’s kind of love by studying his word, reaching out to others and having true fellowship with each other. Christ is our example.
16.07.2011
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I do agree to
an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about
philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks
Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says,
"Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of
Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout
the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word
for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and
transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love
for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a
transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
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I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
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I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
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I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says, "Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be
made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says,
"Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of
Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and
transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says,
"Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of
Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and
transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
États-Unis
I do agree to an extent on you thesis about love. However, there is a unique argument about philos (brotherly) love. In the conversation with Jesus and Peter, Jesus asks Peter, "Do you agape me twice and with each response Jesus first says,
"Feed my lambs" and repeats the question and the final question of
Peter do you philos me, using the same word that Peter himself used throughout the discourse. There are theologians who would suggest that there should not be made to big a deal concerning this conversation and the derivative of the word for love. However, it would suggest that God meets our love where we are and
transforms us to where God desires us to be. If we are to have God like love for others, we too, must be willing to meet others where they are and have a transforming effect on the quality of their love.
26.06.2011
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