The good news is all about Jesus, the one who loves.  Jesus loved us so much that he entered the depths of the human situation to rescue and redeem us. Truly, he loved us and gave himself freely and fully for us.  And now, as his community, we are to love one another as he has loved us.

This love is communally expressed in reciprocal relationships: “Through love be slaves to one another” (Galatians 5:13), and, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). Paul envisages communities in which the fruit of the Spirit is expressed in loving communal relations. Within the Community of God, love is supreme. 

True love is revealed in Jesus.  He modelled life in an intimate love relationship with his Father by the Spirit. He also loved others giving themself to them and for them. However, we do not just imitate the love of Jesus as we admire it from a distance.  The Spirit of God’s Son moves in and among all to form Christ in us. As the Spirit of God’s Son lives in and among us, he enables us to love as Jesus loved us.  Jesus loved each one of us by giving himself for each one of us.  And now he lives in each one of us so that we no longer live but Christ lives in us. He lives in each one to produce his own self-giving love as he is formed in us.  This Christ-like love is the mark of God’s community through his Son in his Spirit.