Great, now that song is stuck in my head.
Ask anybody what Scripture passage is best read at a wedding and you’ll always get 1 Corinthians 13 aka the Love chapter (all of a sudden I hear bow chica bow wow 70s style music in my head…).
Slacktivist has a great post on the kind of love talked about in this passage and what it means to all of is (in other words, this is the kind of love that you should live, not just how you should treat your significant other). (HT: Zach)
You should also check out this comment about a wedding where the passage was misread.
I laughed at the comment someone else left that at a wedding, they wanted 1 John 4:18 on the wedding cake, but got John 4:18 accidentally. Look ‘em up, they’re hilarious!
I liked this paragraph:
Does this make Paul a hypocrite? He clearly failed to live up to the standard he himself sets forth, the standard of perfect, unfailing love. Here I think it’s worthwhile again to note the distinction between hypocrisy and akrasia, or simple moral weakness. This is an important distinction, albeit one made more difficult by the fact that “hypocrite” has entered the English language in a way that akrates has not. That word tends to get translated as “incontinent, lacking self-control,” but it’s literal meaning has more to do with powerlessness. Those of us who are not all-powerful sometimes fail. Such failure does not always, or even usually, entail the insincerity that is the hallmark of hypocrisy. It also does not involve the duplicity of hypocrisy — the notion that standards exist for thee but not for me.
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