1. No it is not just a feeling that comes to us or something that happens. We must decide to love; we must choose it as the focus of our life. It is the essential choice in a Christian's life.
2. Jesus says that the greatest commandments are "loving the Lord your God with all your heart, and will all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. the second is loving your neighbor as yourself."
3. Love means to seek and then foster the good of others in the context of their concrete situations.
4. To seek and foster means to be active in love because love demands activity. It involves finding out what your partner needs and then doing something to fulfill it. The good of others is the same good we would want for ourselves. An example is after receiving a compliment, giving one to someone else. "If you receive than you shall give." In the concrete situation is respectiving a person as he or she is- not as we might wish them to be. Love must take the uniqueness of the other into account. This may require that we take painful or difficult steps for the good of another person.
5. I agree with this definition of love because it covers all aspects of love. It covers love for friendships, animals, and especially your loving partner. This love definition makes perfect sense.
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