Love may apply to various kinds of regard: the charity of the Creator, reverent adoration toward God or toward a person, the relation of parent and child, the regard of friends for each other, or romantic feelings for another person, etc. Affection is a fondness for others that is enduring and tender, but calm. Devotion is an intense love and steadfast, enduring loyalty to a person; it may also imply consecration to a cause.
Where do we begin? Love is often classified and categorized in terms of what type of relationship is being discussed, such as with terms like romantic love and platonic love, or with fancier words like eros or agape.
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In more general contexts, we call the people we love loved ones. You might call someone my love as a term of endearment, much like my dear or my darling. Someone who is well loved is often described as beloved.
Still, despite how common the word is, and how easily it gets tossed around, love is often the strongest word you can use. I love you may be a set phrase, but there really is no equal for it. Perhaps the strongest way to use the word love is not just to say it, but to prove you mean it by showing it.
Of course, love is also commonly used as a way of saying you really like something, as in I love your shoes! In this case, love is the stronger word. Perhaps an even stronger way to say this is by avoiding a love/like construction altogether. For example, instead of saying I love your shoes, you could say Your shoes are fabulous! or Your shoes are EVERYTHING! or however you want to express how amazing they are.
The nurse at the treatment center finds the wound several hours later. The center has no detox, names her too great a risk, and does not accept her. For the next five days, she is ours to love. We become her hospital and the possibility of healing fills our living room with life. It is unspoken and there are only a few of us, but we will be her church, the body of Christ coming alive to meet her needs, to write love on her arms.
After church our house fills with friends, there for a few more moments before goodbye. Everyone has some gift for her, some note or hug or piece of encouragement. She pulls me aside and tells me she would like to give me something. I smile surprised, wondering what it could be. We walk through the crowded living room, to the garage and her stuff.
I have learned so much in one week with one brave girl. She is alive now, in the patience and safety of rehab, covered in marks of madness but choosing to believe that God makes things new, that He meant hope and healing in the stars. She would ask you to remember.
I recently watched some videos on YouTube that came us as recommended to me which seemed to be completely random. I decided to watch one video which of course led to others, and these featured what is now known as the love and hate rice experiment. The idea comes from an original experiment done some years ago by a japanese man called Dr. Masaru Emoto who did an experiement that featured putting water into different petri dishes, exposing the water to different words and emotions, and then freezing the water samples to see how the crystals of water had arranged themselves. The experiement has been critisized for the way it was done (things scientists complained would skew the results) however if you trusted the results, they showed that the crystals of water that had positive words like love and gratitude had frozen into beautiful crystals of water that looked like amazing snowflakes, white the water that had been expoosed to hate had crystals that had frozen into no real structure and ended up looking like murky blobs of water.
But nobody expects a child born into this world to hate themselves. Nobody wants to see a child cry, despair and feel unworthy of happiness and life. And if no child deserves that then why would they when they grow up. The fact is, no matter what has happened in your life, words are powerful. Netative words are filled with the power to make us doubt ourselves, to make us feel unworthy and unloveable. But positive words have the power to heal those wounds, to make us feel worthy, happy, loved and excited to face the world we live in.
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Sometimes I forget that Martin Luther King Jr. was a preacher and a pastor, concerned about the practical, real-life, soul-health, spiritual well-being of his congregation. But his message of nonviolent resistance, including in his book Strength to Love, is only more powerful and practical when I remember his vocation.
As we walk through ongoing reports of police violence against Black and brown men and boys, as we await the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, as we continue to mourn the centuries of injustice and despair around racism throughout our nation, his words have been a comfort and a challenge to me.
Sometimes you need more than a list of romantic words to be romantic. After all, actions speak louder than words. However, in the realm of love, a few sweet words never did any harm. Before you start crafting the one-liner to end all one-liners, take a look at expressions of love in words. From there, review these short and sweet love poems for inspiration. Happy romancing!
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As Gill nudges, its highly unlikely Jesus had this exchange in Greek, so was there a distinction in spoken Aramaic (or even Hebrew ;)) that John is conveying? I believe the inspiration of this passage by the Spirit, with the distinct selection of terms employed, is conveying the original sense of the exchange.
If you mean simple friendship and nothing more then surely philio is the correct word, if you mean that you love others (without any sexual connotation) then agape is the right word, if you mean family love then Storge is the right word, if you mean sexual love then eros is the right word.
We all start out on our Christian journey as babies, developing into young children, growing into young adults, maturing into full adults and finally we lean to become again like children before God no longer questioning, but wholy believing without question the Agape LOVE of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Ian Paul: theologian, author, speaker, academic consultant. Adjunct Professor, Fuller Theological Seminary; Associate Minister, St Nic's, Nottingham; Managing Editor, Grove Books; member of General Synod. Mac user; chocoholic. Tweets at @psephizo
But what does this meaning for our reading, preaching and pastoral practice? For me, there is still a question to be resolved about the use of these terms in John and the differentiation between the four terms for love in wider Greek usage. But the lesson about language is that words are not simply packets that carry meaning, and dictionaries are not magical keys which give us unassailable answers to questions. Words find their meaning in their context, and dictionaries simply sum up the way that words have been used in the range of different contexts that they occur. As Burchard protests:
For once, I agree with you, Ian. Words are not meaning packets, but take their meaning from the way and the context in which they are used. Good preaching also needs a deep reading of the context into which it is spoken to sit alongside the language work.
Even a glance through the variations of use in Phileo all show a conditional love usage that is based on something else, and AGAPE is used for DEEPEST DESIRE that often runs counter to the relationship.
there may be a reason that John, in 1 John never uses phileo ONLY Agape.. why not if they are interchangeable? Because he is contrasting doctrines between pre-gnostics and Orthodox and LOVE that God desires from a doctrinal position is AGAPE unconditional and sacrificial. Which apart from God, we can ONLY give to evil.. as slaves of unrighteousness.
There is not the slightest chance IMHO that John 21 is a later addition. Moreover that conclusion is on the basis of a multi-angled holistic reading. The gospel as a whole does not work (and is sectionally unbalanced) without ch.21; and the 20.30-1//21.25 duality is part of a larger closely-interlinked set of dualities. There are bits of John which may well be later additions (4.2, 4.44, 5.4; plus the pericope adulterae clearly and obviously) but not ch.21.
B- The conversation would become dull to a very unJohannine extent if all 3 exchanges were exactly the same. That level of repetition is never found in the gospel. Precise verbatim repetition is rarely found without at least some small variation. 152ee80cbc