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In today's GB News Daily Reflection, we speak about the importance of love."More ink has been spilt, more wars have been waged because of love than just about anything else. But, what is love?"One of Jesus's dearest disciples, John, wrote extensively about love, about God's love for us. "John exhorted Christians to love one another, for love comes from God."

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00:00The Chibi News Daily Reflection

00:04Hello, my name is Jonny Dade and I'm a vicar in the Church of England.

00:12Love, love changes everything, so goes the iconic song from Andrew Lloyd Webber, famously performed by Michael Ball.

00:21More songs have been written, more ink has been spilled, more wars have been waged because of love.

00:30Than just about anything else.

00:33But what is love?

00:36Comically, the Urban Dictionary defines love as a wildly misunderstood, although highly desirable, malfunction of the heart,

00:46which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow and blood pressure to rise.

00:55Hmm, maybe.

00:58One of Jesus' dearest disciples, John, wrote extensively about love, notably God's love for us.

01:08In his gospel account, he even refers to himself as the disciple whom Jesus loved.

01:16More on that later.

01:18John exhorted Christians to love one another, for love comes from God.

01:26God, John wrote, is both the source and the definition of love.

01:33That's quite a thing to say.

01:35In fact, the Bible really challenges our modern notions of love as subjective, relative, whatever we might want it to be.

01:46But what if, to quote another song lyric, love is more than a feeling?

01:53What if love is definable, knowable even?

01:58Now that really would change everything.

02:03Now that really would change everything.

GB News Daily Reflections - Sunday 22 June

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