He committed His message of reconciliation to us. Alienation is not our mission. So love is the hub of all our relationships. A home without love is an unhealthy, lifeless household. A church without love is an empty shell reverberating with dissonant echoes of clashing egos and vain piety.
Love is the root and the life giving fluid circulating in the tree of our morality.
If we have not love, our morality is a crumpled leaf hanging on a dead tree. And our witness of Biblical moral truth must be done in the spirit and tones of love. We must be on guard lest the political bug bites us. It is an infectious and communicable disease. It turns ambassadors for Christ into political junkies playing the political game of hardball of personal attacks, unethical tactics and partisan politics.