Comments on: Love

By: How Do You Define Love? « Julian Freeman

How Do You Define Love? « Julian Freeman — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:03:34 +0000

[...] people through the years have attempted it. In the past I’ve offered a couple stabs at it: here and here. My thoughts were largely geared toward love for each [...]

By: Julian Freeman

Julian Freeman — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:25:00 +0000

Hey Tim,

Thanks for your insight and question. Since some of the issue you're raising here is something I was hoping to get to eventually, I'll just respond with a new post.

Thanks!

By: Tim Challies

Tim Challies — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:10:00 +0000

Good thoughts, Julian. It reminds me of something I read recently where an old Puritan had gone to his pastor, concerned that he loved his wife too much. His pastor replied wisely that he could not possibly love his wife too much. God commands him to love his wife as Christ loves the church–and Christ loves the church to death. And I guess it’s the same with the church; you could only love the church too much if your definition of love was all wrong.

I wonder in your definition about the words “affection or passion.” Could you not just remove those and say that “Love is that which motivates me to pursue another’s ultimate good regardless of the cost to myself?” Because I think love may go beyond affection and/or passion.

I look forward to reading your future posts on this…