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Passionate Love is a must read for all couples who desire to create and maintain a lasting love and passion filled marriage. In Passionate Love, Pastor George Mwansa outlines how husbands ought to love their wives by systematically drawing lessons from Christ's love for the church. He also gives wives guidelines on how to submit to their husbands – God's way.
Passionate Love is a must read for all couples who desire to create and maintain a lasting love and passion filled marriage. In Passionate Love, Pastor George Mwansa outlines how husbands ought to love their wives by systematically drawing lessons from Christ's love for the church. He also gives wives guidelines on how to submit to their husbands – God's way.
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Chapter<br />
THIS<br />
THING<br />
11<br />
CALLED <strong>LOVE</strong><br />
The word “ichitemwiko” in Bemba, the language through which I<br />
process my thoughts and have my culture defined, means “love” in<br />
English. This word simply means having warm regards and affections<br />
for. Its connotations [adore, be devoted to, care for, find irresistible and<br />
be fond of] are colored with feelings of warmth. In the Greek language,<br />
however, there are several meanings of the word “love.” The word that is<br />
translated “love” in Ephesians 5:25 [Husbands love your wives] is Agape.<br />
Agape is the very essence of God's being. “God is love” [1 John 2:8].<br />
This unique quality or nature of God compelled Him to send His Son to<br />
die for us “while we were yet sinners” [Romans 5:8]. Unfortunately this<br />
type of love is unknown, not just in my language, but even in many others<br />
as well. May be this is one reason why it is such a difficult concept to<br />
grasp. Indeed how can one easily understand a reality that does not exist<br />
in one's language?<br />
The first time I met Helgar, the woman I am married to at the writing of<br />
this manuscript, it was her pretty face and beautiful eyes that made her<br />
stand out where she sat. That was a Friday in the evening at a meeting of<br />
student doctors, and nurses at the University Teaching Hospital in<br />
Lusaka, Zambia. It was however the following day, Sabbath afternoon
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