Opinionating in Love (2)
Before you or I can love someone in giving our opinions to him or her, we must know what the Bible means by the commandment: thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. This love for the neighbor flows, of course, from our love for God which love for God has, of course, as its spring, its source, the love of God for us. The writer graciously assumes that God’s love is already coursing through you. May our attention, while now focused on love for the neighbor, be also always focused on our...