What is love?

love…SEXUAL or LACK of love?

Passion, emotion, union

The Beatles:
All You Need Is Love-
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you
in time - It's easy.

Literature:
Love-noun/verb
Faith-verb
How can we change the way that people use words? offer love and live faith

Culture:
Aphrodite: goddess of love, physical
Who is our neighbor? Who should we love?
The oppressed? People who chose not to love us?

Love:
If all we can do is get close (to the true love that is Christ), is that enough?
Eros gets pulled into it…but it’s not the same thing. We mix the love languages
Without Christ's unconditional love all other kinds of love fail

Why do we find love to be so difficult?
Why have people lost belief in love?
What can we be doing to show love, to give love?


Biblical Love:
Romans 13:8 submit to authority…can we live in a word of love? When authority prevents you from getting/giving love
Matthew 5: love your enemies. Loving those who love you is easy
We have to be intentional about loving others, especially our enemies

1 Corinthians 13

1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.