Article October 23, 1978 ISSUE

Church relationships and the new commandment

RICHARD A. MATHER

The Bible is a fascinating handbook on relationships. It illustrates what Jews and Christians accept as divinely ordained standards of right relationships, both with God and with our fellowman.

Christ Jesus taught that the essential element in these relationships is love. So accurate was his analysis that he summarized the entire body of Jewish law in two "love commandments" (both of which can also be found in the Old Testament): "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.... Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Matt. 22:37, 39;

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