Whether on the Internet or in a chain, links connect us to one another (Ecclesiastes 4:9-12). Love links divinity and humanity. In three distinct stages of love, these links intertwine, and relate to mankind. The underlying premise is that God lives to agape, man was created to phileo, and woman was built to eros. Please understand what I am saying: God must agape […]

There is such power in phileo! It is the highest visible, tangible expression of the love of God in the world. Until we see phileo lived out through and among men the spiritual gifts (tongues, prophecies, faith, wisdom, signs, wonders, and miracles) mean nothing. It all means nothing without phileo (1 Corinthians 13:1-4). Phileo causes us to really care enough […]

With phileo, or brotherly/sisterly love (Hebrews 13:1), one cares for the other as much as one cares for the self (Genesis 2:7, 17, 19). Phileo is the missing link (Genesis 3:23). It is based upon shared vision, purpose, and divine revelation (Genesis 2:28), which make it difficult to understand and challenging to practice (2 Samuel 1:26). It seeks what is […]