What Is Love?

As I hear numerous responses from many different places on the results of the special session of General Conference of the United Methodist Church this week, I begin to wonder what the love truly mean for us, the followers of Jesus Christ.

Two thousands years ago, people were confused with what they thought of the most crucial thing for them to practice as a body of Christ and what actually Jesus showed them through his life, death and resurrection as the most crucial thing for them to practice as his body, the church. Simply saying, they were confused with what they wanted to do and what God wanted them to do.

Apostle Paul described it vividly and tangibly through his letter to the church in Corinth, the 1st Century Postmodern World, so to speak, drawing the healthy boundary between God's and human's. 

The healthy line is "Love", not humanly love but divine love - the active love of God for his Son and his people, and the active love his people are to have for God, each other, and even enemies!

Without Love, We Are Nothing based on 1 Corinthians 13 by Ansan Choir

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have 

not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and 

all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 

but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, 

and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothings." 

(1 Corinthians 13:1-3, NKJV)  

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Two thousand years later, we are still confused with what we thought of the most crucial thing for us to practice as a body of Christ and what actually Jesus showed us through his life, death and resurrection as the most crucial thing for us to practice as his body, the church. Simply saying, we, the 21st Century Postmodernists, are now also confused with what we want to do and what God wants us to do.

Now we want to hear Paul again...

Without Love, We Are Nothing based on 1 Corinthians 13 by a Family Group in Rome United Church

"Though we speak with the tongues of angels that can touch people's heart and evoke 

their feelings and emotions and make them to applaud, but have not love, we have 

become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though we have the gift of prophecy, 

and understand all mysteries and all knowledge in the scripture with a sound theology 

and though we have all faith, so that we could remove mountains, but have not love, 

we are nothing. And though I bestow all our goods to feed the poor and heal the 

sick, and though we give our body to be burned for the transformation of the world, 

but have not love, it profits us nothings." (1 Corinthians 13:1-3, paraphrased)    

What are we doing now?

It is time to love with the same love of Jesus through our joyful obedience together!