To love God and love our neighbor is the standard of God, which on our own we cannot achieve.  But in Christ, a new command is issued.

From Matthew 22:36-40:  “‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’  He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the greatest and first commandment.  And a second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.'”

Randy Frazee is an American pastor and Christian author.  As a teacher and innovator, he is dedicated to leading others in Bible engagement, spiritual formation, and biblical community.