The Definition of Love
This past Sunday night at church we had a guest speaker called Sy Rogers. He’s widely described as one of the best communicators in the world.
This post is just some random, largely unstructured thoughts about the new distinctions I made from listening to him and how I tie that in to what I already know about love.
Right from the start, let me give you the definition of what love is and is not: Love is not what you see in movies and popular culture. Popular culture has not the first clue about love.
According to Sy Rogers, love at it’s core is to value someone. I love this definition for it’s simplicity. Using this definition, it’s easy to spot love.
This has truly been a life changing distinction for me. Whenever I hear or read the word “love”, I now always replace it with the word value, and then I know how to act on the information.
It’s hard to know how to act when I say “You must love this person.” But it’s easy when I say, “you must value this person.” Read more »