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The contrast between the love of the dominant dating culture and the unconditional love called for in the Bible could not be starker. The one is self-centered, the other self-less. The one treats people as disposable, the other acknowledges that people have great worth (that they are worth saving, in fact) and are to be treated as neighbors. The one is preoccupied with immediate gratification (“Live for the moment!”), whereas the other is willing to make sacrifices, takes time, and is grounded in values that last. Imagine if God’s love for us were like our “love” for each other too often is: tentative, fickle, self-serving. Would there be a Good Friday and an Easter Sunday?