Agape Love.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) 

When you truly love, it's very difficult to turn back from whom you love. And when it's agape, it's practically impossible to loose it without laying down your life. If Love is the fulfillment of all the commandments of God (Gal 5:14, Rom 13:10), why does it seem practically impossible for those that believe and are saved?

# The Church.

We love the world and hate ourselves. We are nice outside and cruel and bitter inside. We preach in the church and teach in the world. "Holier than thou" within, nasty without. We are afraid of the ungodly and threatening to ourselves within. How then do we become perfected like Christ? 
"But SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, may GROW UP INTO Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:" (Eph 4:15) 

Do we not know that WE (not I) represent the Body of Christ? NO ONE INDIVIDUAL IS ABLE TO BE THE BODY OF CHRIST, EXCEPT CHRIST HIMSELF. We need to wake up and learn to bond tightly together in love. THERE IS NO DANGER IN LOVE WITHIN THE CHURCH, instead, it's the ONLY WAY out of the world. Rom 13:10 says "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." Love is very safe.

# Christ and All of us.

No one person (except Christ Himself) is able to be the Body of Christ or the Church. We all together are one body of Christ. A body (human or tree) is made up of different parts functioning together for a common goal of living. When one part is in pain, the whole body suffers the pain. The hand cannot say he no longer belong to the body because of the leg, and if it's true, the body is in a critical, life-threatening situation. 

When we start to think too much of "I" or a small group of we, then there is a problem that must be solved, else the whole body suffers. The love of Christ is for His Body to be exceedingly fruitful, powerful, and glorious. The only fix for us is to come into His love and be made perfect. We are together with/in Christ a NEW CREATURE.