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What does it mean?
Treating love as a commodity reduces its true value.
In plain terms
Love isn’t a market good.
What can you take from it?
Value love beyond exchange.

Where it applies

  • church community
  • personal relationships

Putting it to work

  • express love freely
  • avoid transactional love

Questions to consider

  • How does treating love as a commodity harm us?
  • What alternatives exist?

Another view

Some frameworks use love metaphorically to organize care.

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