Our world today has a terrible problem with love. They think they
know what it means. The standard definition of love is that you never do
or say anything that might be upsetting or offensive to another person.
You never do or say anything that might get in the way of them
expressing their own personal desires in however they choose. To love
someone is to affirm and approve whatever it is that they believe about
themselves or choose to do with their bodies or their money or their
lives as a whole. In our world today it is virtually impossible to say,
“You are wrong, but you are loved.” To tell someone they are wrong, they
are misguided, they are in danger, they are in the process of
destroying their lives both for now and for eternity, is to hate them.
To love them is to give them unqualified, unconditional approval and
affirmation.
Jesus never did that.
--Sam Storms
