Comments on: And by “Love,” I Mean…Love http://www.jesusat2am.com/2010/01/10/agape_defined/ ...one pastor's honest reflections on the Christian life... Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:04:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Holly http://www.jesusat2am.com/2010/01/10/agape_defined/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Holly Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:26:32 +0000 http://www.jesusat2am.com/?p=38#comment-46 When God loves, God is all in. This speaks to me so much! I think a sermon series on LOVE is on the horizon...? When God loves, God is all in. This speaks to me so much! I think a sermon series on LOVE is on the horizon…?

]]> By: KWK http://www.jesusat2am.com/2010/01/10/agape_defined/comment-page-1/#comment-14 KWK Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:30:50 +0000 http://www.jesusat2am.com/?p=38#comment-14 Excellent point about God's love being "messy". All that Scripture about God treating His People like a spouse certainly works as an analogy to eros (even if it's not explicitly eros itself). So keeping agape distinct from the other flavors of "love" seems a bit misguided. Strangely, this post reminds me of the commercial where a couple is in a bar, and the woman says to the man, "I love you." He starts stammering, "I lo..., I lu..., I lur...", but can't complete the sentence. Until the waitress comes to ask if he wants another beer, and he immediately answers, "Sure, I'd LOVE one." Excellent point about God’s love being “messy”. All that Scripture about God treating His People like a spouse certainly works as an analogy to eros (even if it’s not explicitly eros itself). So keeping agape distinct from the other flavors of “love” seems a bit misguided.

Strangely, this post reminds me of the commercial where a couple is in a bar, and the woman says to the man, “I love you.” He starts stammering, “I lo…, I lu…, I lur…”, but can’t complete the sentence. Until the waitress comes to ask if he wants another beer, and he immediately answers, “Sure, I’d LOVE one.”

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