{"id":69841,"date":"2024-09-17T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=69841"},"modified":"2025-10-07T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T20:08:06","slug":"true-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/true-love-2\/","title":{"rendered":"True Love (Moyer)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>by Doy Moyer<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/love-200x300.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>True love is not about infatuation, mushy feelings, and giddy joy. While these may occasionally attend love, true love is found in the trenches of life. Love is knowing that you have each other&#8217;s backs at the end of the day. It&#8217;s working through difficulties and not fearing that the next disagreement or bad mood will destroy a marriage or friendship. True love is about forgiveness, reconciliation, steadfast loyalty, and absolute commitment. It is not just feelings but is shown in dedicated action. It is providing support, lifting each other up, and seeking first the needs of one another. It is striving to love as Christ loved and gave Himself for us. It is hard work, but always worth it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Doy Moyer True love is not about infatuation, mushy feelings, and giddy joy. While these may occasionally attend love, true love is found in the trenches of life. Love is knowing that you have each other&#8217;s backs at the end of the day. It&#8217;s working through difficulties and not fearing that the next disagreement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-69841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45197,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/brotherly-love-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":0},"title":"Brotherly Love (Moyer)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer In our modern-day, \"love\" has many faces. A man may see a woman for the first time and say, \"I'm in love.\" What he means is, \"I have a strong attraction.\" To some, \"love\" implies lust. Basically, \"love\" means anything we want it to mean in whatever\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":70945,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/peace-and-truth\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":1},"title":"Peace and Truth","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer There are people I genuinely like but with whom I have strong disagreements. Some are on opposite theological and political isles, yet I feel kindly disposed toward them. I cannot explain this. It's just something that you either get or don't. I suspect that this is true\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":86887,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/sincere-obedience\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":2},"title":"Sincere Obedience","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer Obedience is not merely an outward act that conforms to a command. It is a bending of the heart, a surrender of the will, to the mind of God. If I regularly ran red lights because I didn't want to stop, then I am a lawbreaker at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":89786,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/truth-and-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":3},"title":"Truth and Love","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 27, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Doy Moyer Truth and love are not at odds. Both are needed simultaneously. Truth without love can be unkind, cold, and heartless. Love without truth will be arbitrary, compromising reality, and without standards. However, together, united, truth and love will be purposeful, compassionate, and committed to what is best\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":57547,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-it-wrong-to-have-romantic-feelings\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":4},"title":"Is It Wrong to Have Romantic Feelings?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"by Clem Thurman via\u00a0Gospel Minutes, Vol. 58, No. 40, Oct. 2, 2009 \"And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make for him a help meet for him\" (Genesis 2:18). God intended that man should have a mate, a woman, and that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Article&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/romantic-300x239.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":88130,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/one-another\/","url_meta":{"origin":69841,"position":5},"title":"One Another","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"June 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Download Audio Text: Romans 12:9-13 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We are an individualistic society, but we recognize the need to work together to achieve goals. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We form companies to manufacture goods \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We have governments to coordinate society \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0C.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There are aspects of Christianity that I am responsible for as an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Audio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}