       
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments.
 
When we love we have no fear. (Perfect love casts out all fear.)
When we have no fear we have peace that passes all understanding.
When we have peace we have the joy of the Lord.
When we have the joy of the Lord we have strength.
When we have strength in God's word we have faith.
(Faith comes by hearing,reading, and speaking God's word.)
When we have faith in God we produce good works.
(Faith without good works is dead.)
When we produce good works and these other attributes
are working through us, then the good news concerning
Jesus Christ will be a witness to the world even
though we the church might not have said nor done anything.
Everything we are called to do or believe as Christians begins and ends with love because
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