Years ago a popular song said:

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love;

It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love;

No, not just for some, but for everyone.”

Its words certainly have Biblical implications.

My theme, “In All Things Love,” opens a huge package. As I reflected on it, I wondered, “Where in the world do I go with it?” Another popular song said “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.” And it certainly does have many facets. I began to search for sermons I had preached on this subject and had not gone far before I had already exhumed ten. So I stopped, for each of them had dealt with a different aspect of love. Love is an inexhaustible subject because God is inexhaustible, for God is love.

Ephesians 5:17-19 says: “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Even as I concentrated on its application to the first two parts of this Restoration slogan, “In Faith Unity, In Matters of Opinion Liberty,” I still found it a limitless subject. So, with fear and trepidation, though the Bible says, “perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18), I will endeavor to apply my finite efforts to the assignment.