Matthew 22:34-40
Love God and Love Neighbor is The Greatest Commandment
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus teaches that we are to love God and love our each neighbor...When we do this we build strong relationships with our neighbors and with God...He tells us to love both God and neighbor...And that includes our enemies, also...We are to learn from our love of God and neighbor...We are to become more personal with both God and neighbor...Nurturing healthy and loving relationships with family, friends, neighbors, and community builds a harmonious world...When we live a life of service to others, we are more like Jesus...We are to follow the Truth and tear down the walls of deceit and falsehoods of those who fail to see the Truth...We are not to tear down others, but to build them up...Forgiveness and kindness and love are Fruits of the Holy Spirit...We are to help others and contribute to the betterment of society and our communities and the world...This is the Christian Worldview...
Nancy Randolph Pearcey is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview...She offers these thoughts on the world and how we should look at it from a Spiritual and Godly Perspective...“Genuine worldview thinking is far more than a mental strategy or a new spin on current events...At the core, it is a deepening of our spiritual character and the character of our lives...It begins with the submission of our minds to the LORD of the Universe—a willingness to be taught by Him...The driving force in worldview studies should be a commitment to “love the LORD your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind” (see Luke 10:27).”...“Christians are called to tear down mental fortresses and liberate people from the power of false ideas.”...“People who have the power to control the “‘official’ definitions of reality” are in a position to impose their own private worldview across an entire society.”...“For the early scientists, the Image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent...Nor was it a purely private “faith.”...They treated it as a public Truth, the epistemological foundation for the entire scientific enterprise...Their goal, they said, was to think God’s thoughts after Him...At the time of the scientific revolution, biblical epistemology was the guarantee that the human mind is equipped to gain genuine knowledge of the world.”...
Pearcey adds this important fact about followers of Jesus: “Only Christianity, with its teaching of a Personal Creator, provides an adequate metaphysical explanation of our irreducible experience of personhood...It alone accounts for the raw material of experience within a comprehensive worldview...In the modern world, with its large, impersonal institutions where people are treated as ciphers in the machine, the Christian message is good news indeed...Ultimate reality is not the machine; it is a Personal Being who LOVES and relates to each individual in a personal manner.”...