What we are discovering here is that Love is the sinew, or the fastener, or the uniting bond that ties all these godly virtues together and this results in unity of the Spirit, or as Paul will frame it in Ephesians 4:13 “the unity of the faith.”

There’s a lot of noise out there. There’s teaching that leaves us confused, even fearful. There’s teaching that seems to call us to divide ourselves from those who understand things differently. This doesn’t sit well with the Spirit within us.