Tests are examples of - not exceptions to - God's love.

Published: Feb. 18, 2018, 10 a.m.

Everyone in the world has assumptions about God, and every religion in the world has certain assumptions about God in common. But Jesus came to proclaim a religion that not turns those assumptions completely upside down. This week we rethink love. Every religion tells that its followers to love its deity above all. However, Christianity is unique in that the love God demands is the love he himself provides. His love for us led him to send his Son. Christ’s perfect love in our place becomes ours through faith. The love God demands of us is not forced under threat of punishment. Rather it is won at God’s own expense.