Loving God with all our hearts, souls, minds, & strengths

We, as a local body of followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, do covenant together to make disciples of all nations and to promote one another to good works and mature faith in Christ.

Our pursuit of God and our love of Him is comprehensive according to the Bible. His people will be ones that love Him with all we are: heart, soul, mind, and strength. Of course, we could do a word study on each of the words that Christ used in His response that we read in Luke 10, but the main point seems to be clear: True love of God cannot be partial in any form.
This type of love is transformational. It is from this pursuit and power of love that God allows us to show Him that we grow in sanctification. As I long to love God in fullness, I am finding over the years that He is shaping me more and more. This happens because I want my love to be shown in all I do as He has revealed to me in the Bible. This is the way idols are crushed in my life. It is the way that self-righteousness and pride can be dealt with daily. It is a desire to love God with all that I am with my mind, my body, my actions, and all I could even imagine as I seek to turn towards Him in love! This is where the love of God begins to prove as true freedom in my life. 
We are free to love Him fully, therefore we don’t have to submit to the whims of culture and the ever-changing tide of our day. We can be who we were fully created to be as we daily seek to love Him with all we are.
Church - this commitment we make to one another is a great question that we should ask one another often over coffee or whenever we meet in fellowship: “How are you doing in your love of God in all of your life?” 
What a joy to covenant with each of you so that we can encourage one another to daily live in the freeing love of our Lord as we seek to love Him with all of heart, soul, mind, and strength.