Three Commands

When Jesus was asked about the greatest command, He identified two: love God and our neighbor. But how do we do this in a tangible way? We’ve relegated loving God to a set of disciplines and loving our neighbor to community service projects. We coin phrases like “relationship, not rules” in an attempt to break out of Old Covenant legalism. Jesus knew the burden of trying to fulfill the law and instead gave us a new command. That command, that we love each other, changes everything about how we experience the three commands as a whole, and shows us a new way of fulfilling them. Loving each other as members of Christ’s body unlocks the fullness of relationship with God, which equips us to lead others into His kingdom–and so the cyclical dance of the three commands continues, endlessly revolving around the Author of love Himself.