“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 Jn 4:10). These words point to the revolutionary new understanding of love the Christians brought into the world. They learned from the love of God for the unworthy and they came to love not because they found people worthy to be loved but because they had become loving people. They loved now not because of the attractiveness they discerned in other people but because they themselves