The Art Of Loving One Another
Learning to Love and Be Loved
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
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Keeping it real
My book The Art Of Loving One Another written ten years ago attempts to dissect this first one another command to love one another. I’ve tried for years to update this book and revamp its pages into a more Bible study format, but nothing I did worked. In frustration I removed this book from Amazon and just thought to let well enough alone.
But God was having none of that!
The solution
This restored website is the solution I believe God has been leading me to all along. Instead of a rewrite of the book or putting it back on Amazon, I present here the material from this first book in blog form, including a the Greek references, discussion questions, and the short story.
It will take several months to complete this task, and in that time, I will study and write toward a follow-up to that first book. And that was the rewrite problem. It wasn’t that the first book needed to be rewritten, it simply needed an expansion of some of its content; specifically, to further investigate the foundational principle to love one another in truth. The working title for this second book is: Love One Another: An Encounter with The Truth using John 14:6 as the catalyst for the books message.
I will say, it is a critical message in this culture of “All that matters is my truth.”
What Will You Find in this Book?
All of us are lonely once in a while, and God tells us to be alone with Him, but for many of us, isolation from meaningful human interaction is the norm of daily living. We may work for large corporations and attend church. We may even have big families and the appearance of many friends. But for whatever reasons, real or imagined, we have continual and overwhelming feelings of loneliness and isolation. Within the body of Christ, this extreme is unacceptable. Chapter One:The Value of One
I love this story because Elijah gives us a great example of what it looks like to give 100% in the power of God and the stark contrast of what it looks like when we do life on our own. He also challenges us with the important principle of living life in balance.
Chapter Two: You’ve Got Mail
If the Devil can keep both camps on the extremes, the edges, of the battlefield with his lies and suggestions, then he has done his job well. It takes great strength, effort, and courage to stay in the middle of the real battle. It’s much easier to toss stones across the battlefield at each other than to take out our sword, run to the middle, and let Satan have it!
Chapter Five: A New Thing
The ancients talked about love, wrote about love, sang about love, and mused about love. Modern man does the same with just a few different twists. We email about love, tweet about love, text about love, fly airplane banners about love, and build billboards about love. And occasionally, we still write in the sand about love and send the message in a bottle about love because it’s just so romantic. But even with the oceans full of discussions about love, humans cannot agree on the most basic thing about love. What is it?
Chapter Six: Both/And
One Another Living 