others.“Let us consider how we may spur one another on,” the author urges, again using the present tense to stress continued action. “Consider” means putting our mind on others, carefully noting their needs. As one body in Christ, we need to spur one another on “toward love and good deeds.” The word for love in the Greek is agape, the highest kind of love, which loves the undeserving and unlovable, which perceives and then performs. John points to the perfect example of such love: “This is love: not that