Does everything I do with family and neighbors need to be based on love?
Yes. Everything we say, think, and do with regard to family, spouse, neighbors, and business partners must be based on love. This is agape love, which is God-centered and only the true believer can truly exercise. It is not the erotic love Hollywood promotes.
Les teaches that even if a person bestows all goods to feed the poor or gives his body to be burned as a sacrifice, without love it is all for nothing. He emphasizes that everything we say, think, and do with regards to family, wife, neighbors, and business partners must be based on the premise of love. This is not the erotic love Hollywood promotes but agape love, which is God-centered; only the true believer can really have and exercise it, while the unsaved world cannot comprehend it. Paul says this love is out there for us to latch on to. Les then explains its attributes: love suffers long and is kind, does not envy or covet, does not vaunt itself or become arrogant, is not puffed up, does not behave unseemly, never seeks her own, and is not easily provoked.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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What should everything we say, think, and do toward family, spouse, neighbors, and business partners be based on?
Everything we say, think, and do in relation to our family, spouse, neighbors, and business partners must still be based on the premise of love.
What should everything we say, think, and do be based on?
Everything believers say, think, and do in relation to family, spouse, neighbors, business partners, or any relationship must be based on the premise of love.