Welcome to The For The Gospel Podcast, where we're all about sound doctrine for everyday

people.

I'm your host, Kosti Han, and on today's episode, I want to talk about love and provide you

with a biblical framework for love.

I think these will renew your mind, and whenever Valentine's Day comes around, it's not

unusual to be faced with all the typical cliches about love and some good things as well.

If you like to use Valentine's Day to express yourself to someone you love, but as with

anything, it's important for Christians to have another worldly perspective.

We are people who follow Jesus, and regardless of what we used to define love as in our

former way of living, as believers, we now need to define God's love and love of others,

God's way.

In this episode, we'll reflect on the meaning of four Greek words for love, two of which

are used in scripture, but all four are conceptually presented.

And the significance of each one is important for us as Christians, and we should reflect

on each one.

So I'm going to have some fun here, Bible nerd episode, where we get to do some word

studies on the different types of love that we see in the Bible.

The Greek words in this episode are eros, storge, filia, and agape.

There are actually more than four Greek words for love and different kinds of love, but

these also fights for this particular episode.

Now, anytime this topic comes up and people are familiar with any of the words I just listed,

it's often because CS Lewis was one of the first to focus on these particular four words

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