God Is Love We can’t separate this idea of giving ourselves over to the demands of love from our relationship with God and our expressions of Christian faith, because God is love. I hear people quote all the time from the gospel of John where Jesus tells his disciples that if they love him, they should obey his commands. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that passage quoted as a way of telling people that they should follow all the rules. I think that completely misses the point of everything God is doing.