Every act of love requires creative and personal giving, responding, and serving appropriate to—context specific to—both the person doing the loving and the person being loved. Because of the totally personal, particular, and uniquely contextual community dimensions involved in even the simplest act of love—the circumstantial complexity and inescapably local conditions—there is a sense in which we cannot tell a person how to love, and so our Scriptures for the most part don’t even try.
