I Must Be About My Father's Business

Every living thing is involved in and sustained by three functions: input, process, and output. Likewise, the spiritual growth and maturity of a Christian revolves around these three processes redefined as:

- Relationship involves God and man sharing a mutual interaction of love,
communication, and trust.

- Transformation involves a continuous change of self (our will, mind and
emotions) less of my will, mind and limited human love and more of God's
will, mind and perfect love.

- Dominion involves man using the authority and power available to him, as
a son of God, to fulfill God's will and work on earth.

Perfect Love -- the Highest Law and Strongest Force

There is one key overarching theme that is woven into these three processes that is superior to every theme or subject in the Bible. And that is the perfect love of God.

The primary purpose of this book is not to provide an exegesis on the definition of perfect love but to review its cause and effect and affirm that:

- It is the only acceptable motive for doing anything for God. "Though I have all
spiritual gifts . . . give all my goods to the poor . . . give my body to be
burned, and have not love, it is nothing" (1 Cor. 13:1-3).

- It is the foundation and driving force for everything that is meaningful and
lasting in the Kingdom of God. It is the currency of God's Kingdom.

- It is the key element required to produce revival and evangelism with miracles,
signs, and church growth like the first century church in the book of Acts, that
shook their known world.

In this study we will discuss some hindrances that obstruct the growth and flow of God's love in our lives. We will also discuss some of the principles that promote and increase the growth of God's love in our lives. Some of the amazing benefits and results of the perfect love of God flowing and working in our lives include: humility, unity, forgiveness, reconciliation of relationships, love for our neighbor and enemy and especially the brotherhood.

Loving God and loving our brother are intricately and indissolubly linked, because we are members of one body. Our love for God (the invisible) is manifest by our love for our brother (the visible): "He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." (1 John 4:20)