One of my favorite truths
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the Day of Judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
Much, Much wisdom in these words from 1 John
If only people could see that their fear, anger, and hatred casts out love. Like doubt, it becomes the anchor that lowers us as it did Peter when he walked on the water.
PS. Guilt does the same thing!
and the Christian has a duty to rightly divide the word of God—to understand the terms used in their natural sense. Too often those who call themselves Christian confuse the term “love” with our post modern sense that if we love somebody we dare not question what they do that puts them in danger of the fire to come.What man could claim to love a neighbor whose house was being consumed with fire —and love that it is the neighbor who chose to live in a house that is now burning up—but refuse to do everything possible to pull him/or her from the fire?A father loves his children-a good father will guide them in the paths of righteousness.
I am not too sure of this, but doesn’t scripture also say to shun the public sinner if he does not repent?