What Is Love?

Christmas is a season of love. I mean the whole reason we have Christmas is because God loved us enough to send his Son. Love is foundational to the season. But what is love…
 
I love the Lord.
I love my wife and my kids.
I love my church, my city, my friends.
 
But…
 
I also love burritos.
And Mexican food.
And Star Wars.
And my bike.
 
It’s all the same word, but very different meanings.
 
That’s the problem.
 
In English, love does an incredible amount of heavy lifting. We fall in love. Fall out of love. Love on people. Make love. We can even love love. We have stretched this word to the point of breaking.
That’s why love is confusing. It can both mean everything and nothing.
 
Our culture uses the word constantly, but rarely precisely. So, part of my job is to slow us down and ask a better question:
 
When the Bible talks about love, what does it actually mean?
 
Because the love at the heart of Christmas isn’t vague or sentimental. It’s clearer, deeper, more demanding than we expect, and far more powerful than we imagine.
 
Join us for the last Sunday of Advent as we look at what real love is.