This is what it should mean to be a Christian and a member of the church of Christ. What a wonderful thing it is to belong to a fellowship that is made up of people who may be united by the Spirit of God and through whom we believe that God works! What a comfort it is to know that we do not have to do and believe everything ourselves! Not only do we not have to live and believe and love for ourselves, but others live and believe and love for us at times when we cannot. But let us also remember that we have to live and believe and love for them when weakness or doubt or hostility seems to overwhelm them. This is the meaning of Christian fellowship; namely, that we are not an aggregation of individuals, but instead are members of one body, with every member having his own function, and the function of every member standing in a complementary relation to that of the others, of which body Christ is the head. Here is the source of the love about which we have been speaking and the process through which love is lived in the life of the world that God loves. [11] Luke 10:27. [12] From _Love, Power and Justice_, by Paul Tillich, Oxford University Press, Copyright, 1954. Used by permission. [13] 1 John 4:10. The title of this book was suggested by the familiar opening words of this verse in the King James Version, "Herein is love...." [14] Matt. 10:8. [15] See Luke 19:2 ff. [16] See Luke 7:37 ff. IV SOME OBJECTIVES OF LOVE "Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth."--_1 John 3:18_ The objective of love, as we have seen, is to "move everything to everything else that is," especially to reunite person to person. This is an identifying characteristic of the love of God, and it is to some degree the characteristic of all love. We believe that this love was incarnate in Jesus Christ. We believe that His Spirit, active in the world in which we live, seeks to incarnate this love in us here and now. Furthermore, we have identified some more general characteristics of love. Now we turn to look at some of the ways in which love accomplishes its purpose, a purpose which is the responsibility of the church in its dispersion in the life of the world. _Love's Sphere Is Personal_