The Importance of Love, I John 3

In this passage, John emphasizes the importance of love in the life of a believer. What kind of love is John talking about? Is this love different from what the world calls love? How can we express this love toward one another?

Okay, I'll break it down a bit to answer the questions.

The sort of love that John is talking about is not the sappy love. It's the love that considers others before yourself, a love that serves others. It's the love that generously gives without expecting anything back, and thinking of others rather than yourself. It can be small, such as opening the door for someone or letting someone pass before you. It can be helping someone who is finding something hard, or going through a tough time.

A question I can pull out of this though is, is it easy to love others, especially when the other person is so selfish and inconsiderate?

What does the world call love? The world's love is love for you. What YOU want rather than what other people want. It's putting you first. Everyone else, well, they don't matter. So long as you have what you want, nothing else matters. That's the way the world looks at love. And that's not mentioning the "Hollywood" way of relationships too (ones that never last)

So the short answer? Yes

I actaully answered this question in the first question but just for emphasis and in short, you should serve once another, as Christ did.