It's one thing to say "God loves you" or "Jesus loves you" but it's another thing entirely to say "I love you" and mean it, to back it up with deeds, not just words.

       A religious ceremony in no way expresses the love of God. We contend that our religious ceremonies express our love for God but He tells us we cannot love Him apart from loving each other. There may be seasons when we draw aside to Him, alone in the wilderness,  but He always sends us back down the mountain,  to the people we belong to, eventually.  He no more wants our private, intimate fellowship to end than we do  - but He is always attentive to the needs of His people. 

       Altar calls are worthless if they are merely inviting people (precious souls) into an impersonal religious ceremony where they are taught from the start their relationship with God is a religious tradition- to be fulfilled in the church service,  primarily.  They met Him at church and they're told (or it's intimated) that is where they must continue to meet Him. A pseudo love says (feigned) "I will meet with you only during these prearranged religious ceremonies  - but i will not take time to meet with you from my personal life. I will only know you during "ministry"  -  so now the young children learn that relationship is religious and not real  - love is just a word to be spoken   - a noun, not a verb.

We, believers,  must break bread with one another, house to house and heart to heart  - it is imperative that we do so; because Love wants to personally touch every hurt inside.  Love wants to know each of us personally.  He not only meets with us privately   - He uses us to meet with us, amen. He loves each of us so deeply  and He wants each of us to be just like Him  - deeply in love with one another.  And our love does not need to be dressed up as "ministry" -   it must be organic, not organizational. The only one who should ever "organize" our love for each other is the Holy Spirit.  We should never be told how to love each other and when. And who. We should let God connect individual,members with one another as He sees fit  - and fleshly "cliques" should be avoided at all costs.  The Holy Spirit will never allow anyone in our midst to go unloved and unnoticed. 

Part two coming soon