That you may know - assurance established: love for the saints #1

God's people love one another, and that love is patterned after the love that God has shown toward us. This love rises above anything that the world demands or offers.

It is not mere natural affection; it is not mercenary attachment; it is not party spirit or a gang mentality; it is not hypocritical inconsistency.

It is a love that is fashioned by the experience of being loved by God in Christ.