{"id":38921,"date":"2019-01-07T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/love-is-driving-force-behind-everything-we-do\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:19:00","slug":"love-is-driving-force-behind-everything-we-do","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/love-is-driving-force-behind-everything-we-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is the Driving Force Behind Everything We Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PBS&rsquo; <em>The Great American Read <\/em>is an eight-part series that explores America&rsquo;s 100 best-loved novels. The series notes that one theme emerges often in these 100 best-loved novels&mdash;the quest for love, especially a romantic love that will endure. Here are some quotes from literature experts commenting on the series and the novels:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&ldquo;[According to theses novels] Love is the driving force behind everything that we do. So I think reading about all these different types of loves and the ways in which they present, is one of the great human questions.&rdquo; Another commentator wrote: &ldquo;I love a good love story. I think everybody wants it. If you don&rsquo;t want it you&rsquo;re trying to get it. If you have it you&rsquo;re trying to keep it.&rdquo; A third summarized: &ldquo;Every book on this list is about love and death. And finding love that transcends death. I mean, who&rsquo;s not going to love a love story?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Others added the following quotes:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&ldquo;We want to see that things last. We want to know that you can&rsquo;t just throw love away. As human beings, as readers, we want something to be that important that you would stick with it forever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are fascinated by the fact that things can go wrong in love. We don&rsquo;t want to go there. We don&rsquo;t want this sort of thing to happen to us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Possible Preaching Angles:<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>Romantic love; marriage; God&#39;s love; gospel: The gospel provides the ultimate love story, not just romance, but the God who enters into a love story that involves commitment and sacrifice.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[405,409,411],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3393,3856,3981,4085,4196,4395,4400,4425,4792,4856,4858,5206,5270,5275],"tax_ctp_topics":[389,396],"class_list":["post-38921","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-affection","tax_ctp_tags-emotions","tax_ctp_tags-feelings","tax_ctp_tags-gospel","tax_ctp_tags-husband","tax_ctp_tags-love","tax_ctp_tags-love-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-marriage","tax_ctp_tags-relationship","tax_ctp_tags-romance","tax_ctp_tags-romantic-love","tax_ctp_tags-unconditional-love","tax_ctp_tags-weddings","tax_ctp_tags-wife"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Love is the Driving Force Behind Everything We Do - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/love-is-driving-force-behind-everything-we-do\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Love is the Driving Force Behind Everything We Do - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PBS&rsquo; The Great American Read is an eight-part series that explores America&rsquo;s 100 best-loved novels. 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