A couple of ways I try and show my wife that I love her would be to bring home a gift, maybe a flower,

and then give her some of my quality time by sitting and listening to her for a few minutes before I move on to the rest of my day.

My love language is words of encouragement and then quality time.

For me it really is acts of service. This last weekend, my husband took out our front

stairs. They were crumbling made of concrete, and he and my son took them out with a jackhammer.

And that really made me feel loved. I know that sounds strange, but that was it for me.

Well, some interesting perspectives on love there. How about you? Do you have a favorite way to

express love or a way that communicates

love to you? We're going to be learning a lot more about the five love languages from the man

who identified them and wrote very effectively about them, Dr. Gary Chapman. He joins us today

on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller. You know, John, it's been 33 years since Gary first introduced this concept of love languages,

and we know from experience it's had a profound impact on the culture and the Christian

community in particular.

For some people, love can be a rather generic and poorly defined word.

For example, we say we love our spouse and our children.

Of course we do.

But I also kind of love football, but it's a different kind of love.

You know, in Greek, they have three or four or five ways to express that.

For us, it's the same word.

I love football and I love my wife.

But I wonder if we really understand what that love word means.

And today we're going to talk about what it means.

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