{"id":6519,"date":"2010-09-21T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2010-09-21T07:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T12:43:44","slug":"all-you-need-is-love-but-how-do-we-show-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/all-you-need-is-love-but-how-do-we-show-it\/","title":{"rendered":"All you need is love… but how do we show it?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Love Wins | Photo by Jonathan Blundell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lately, I’ve noticed a number of people talking about how much they love others. <\/p>\n

It reminds me of the “competition” you hear new couples play… “I love you.” “I love you more.” “No, I love you more.” “No, I love you more than that…”<\/p>\n

But perhaps the sad side of this love fest is that I’m seeing two different kinds of love expressed.<\/p>\n

One side says, “I love you so much I’m going to point out where you’re wrong so you can come clean, repent and get yourself right.”<\/p>\n

The other side says, “I love you so much I’m going to ignore everything you’re doing wrong and accept you and everyone else.”<\/p>\n

So while it seems that while everyone wants to love others — neither side has agreed upon a proper definition of love.<\/p>\n

And to justify their behavior, one side points to Jesus calling out the wrongs of the religious pharisees of his day as the true example of love.<\/p>\n

The other side points to Jesus choosing not to condemn the woman caught in adultery as a true example of love (John 8).<\/p>\n

Quite an interesting contrast — both coming from stories about the same man.<\/p>\n

I’m going to write more about this later but I want to hear thoughts from you — as Insurgents of Love… <\/p>\n

How do you show love? How have people shown real love to you? How should we show love?<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately, I’ve noticed a number of people talking about how much they love others. It reminds me of the “competition” you hear new couples play… “I love you.” “I love you more.” “No, I love you more.” “No, I love you more than that…” But perhaps the sad side of this love fest is that … Continue reading All you need is love… but how do we show it?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[3826,286,3825,498,1599,3824],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-examples","tag-jesus","tag-justify","tag-love","tag-love-wins","tag-show-love"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1H9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}