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What do you think the lecturer means when she says “loving one another is based on truth”? Why is this an important concept to understand?
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Love has be re-defined in our culture. Love has been divorced from the concept of objective truth. If there is an objective truth, it is loving to submit yourself to it and to help others who are deceived or willfully disobeying that truth. However, our culture says that love is defined as not speaking out against anyone’s beliefs or values, or “coexisting.” The problem with that is that where there are different values, there has to be conflict if those values hold any weight or importance at all. What do we do when those values conflict? How can we determine what is the most loving thing? We NEED the truth, an objective standard outside our own feelings.
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The lectured uses this statement based on God calling us to love each other in other words love your neighbor as you love your family. The concept is important to understand because God has commanded us to love each other and we must educate others to follow this concept.
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Loving one another is something God has asked us to do. That is the truth in His word. He doesn’t want us to love for any other reason except that He called us to.
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Loving one another is a hard concept to understand if one is not able to look at others and see them as Christ does or to value them as a child of Christ, even when they are in denial. If someone has created an offence and we do not deal with it as Christ taught us to do, (Matthew 18 principle for example), we are not living Christ’s truth. Teaching kids this principle looks easy on the surface, but if they’re not in the Word daily and learning to understand it, they have more difficulty in grasping it and extending Grace to one another. Really super helpful in early teen years! Also helps with classroom management.
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Loving one another is based on knowing the word. Correcting when individuals are making choices that are not in line with what God desires and commands of us. We do the correcting because we love them and know that God’s way is the best way to live a joy filled life. When we let people “go their own way” because it’s uncomfortable to call them on their sin, we’re not loving because we’re not looking out for their best interest.