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    Love: the Greatest Command
    Love: the Greatest Command
    Love: the Greatest Command
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    Love: the Greatest Command

    By Michael O Awotoye

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    Love is a mystery to all of us. but the Bible promises us that we shall know fully, even as we are fully know. This book look intently on God’s love - receiving it and then giving it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMay 17, 2021
    ISBN9781664232549
    Love: the Greatest Command
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    Michael O Awotoye

    Michael Awotoye resides in Baltimore, Maryland. He spent his first 32 years in Nigeria. At the age of thirteen, he was enrolled in St. Kizito Minor Seminary, a Catholic Seminary preparing teenagers for Priesthood. When he was graduating from seminary at the age of eighteen, he decided that he wanted to be open to other doctrines of the Christian faith. He then enrolled in University of Ilorin, Nigeria, where he studied Biochemistry. While in school, he joined a Pentecostal Christian fellowship, where he expanded his horizon and view of the Christian faith tremendously. He is presently in United State where he is a worker of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He has also obtained an MBA from Morgan State University, Maryland.

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      Love - Michael O Awotoye

      Copyright © 2021 Michael O Awotoye.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Scripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973 1978 1984 2011 by Biblica, Inc. TM. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      ISBN: 978-1-6642-3253-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-6642-3254-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2021908495

      WestBow Press rev. date: 5/14/2021

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 The Mystery of Love

      Chapter 2 Mystery of Loving

      Chapter 3 What Love Is Not

      Chapter 4 Characteristics of Love

      Chapter 5 So Why Not Love?

      Chapter 6 Making the Love of God Yours

      CHAPTER 1

      The Mystery of Love

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