What is love?
Posted 9/22/2001
Dr. Mark Minnick, Couples' Conference 2001
Four words for love:
- Eros - physical love; stems from visual beauty/ attraction; greedy lasciviousness
- Phileo - friendship love; warm, tender, affectionate relationship; the love of a wife for her husband
- Storge - family love; used in the Bible in identifying those without it.
- Agape - self-sacrificing love
The husband's love is sacrificial; on a habitual basis!
- Pure: No fornication
- Purposeful: set apart to become holy. Nothing is more irresistible than sacrificial love!
- Personally: we are one, as one single body, not two people. Loving her is loving himself.
You can't ignore, not talk to, walk out on yourself! His & her feelings are tied together, for better or worse. God has locked man & woman into marriage, with no end.
This is impossible for a man without the empowering, indwelling Spirit of God.