In this month’s episode of Ask Adam we ask Pastor Adam Bernal about love… here are some of the questions we “Asked Adam”

Questions:

1. How did you get your start in ministry?

2. Why was the Song of Solomon a book in the Bible?

3. Were love marriages prominent in antiquity, or were they mostly arranged (i.e. Mary and Joseph)?

4. Can you explain the different words for “love” in Greek? And how is God's love (agape) different?

5. Aren’t we supposed to display God’s kind of love? If that is AGAPE - is it even possible?

6. "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command." John 15:12-14. Do you see this as a prophetic statement by Jesus, referring to His own crucifixion and also the coming persecutions of the Disciples?

7. Have you ever met someone during your missionary travels that has lived or exemplified 1 Corinthians 13 in their lives despite being injured or berated?

8. Have you heard it said that out of the fruits of the Spirit that love was placed first and self-control placed last as bookends to hold together the other 7, it takes love & self-control in order to achieve those in between?

9. In Galatians, the Apostle Paul is trying to correct the teaching that has crept in the church by the Judaizers to push the new converts to follow the mosaic law and be circumcised in order to be accepted by God. Why did Paul circumcise Timothy as stated in the book of Acts? Wouldn’t his action confuse the new converts? We see him being so bold and going up against others, even Peter, why would he then cave into the Jews to have Timothy circumcised?

10 Is it possible to love someone else after falling in love with someone else?

11. Are soul ties a form of love? Can they be broken?