What kinds of teenage trouble would disappear in a family where everyone sought each other's highest good?
Teenagers would not be found in the drug culture, dropping out of school, or getting into other kinds of trouble. Such behaviors contradict the family’s highest good, so in a family where every member seeks each other’s highest good, those troubles would be absent.
Les explains that agape love is defined as seeking the other person’s highest good. He asks listeners to imagine a family where all members, down to grandchildren and great-grandchildren, do everything with the idea of bringing about the highest good for their fellow family members. In such a family, teenagers would not be found in the drug culture, because that does not bring about the family’s highest good. They would not be found dropping out of school. They would not be found getting into other kinds of trouble, or any segment of life for that matter. These troubles are contrasted with the fruit of the Spirit.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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What would it look like to live in a family where everyone practiced agape love?
It would be great to live in a family where every member, down to the grandchildren and great grandchildren, did everything with the aim of bringing about the highest good of their fellow family members.