Mr. Jones quoted David Augsburger this year at the Christ Church Ministerial Conference:
“My favorite definition of agape, compiled from many sources, is: a radical commitment to the welfare of the other that sees the other with an equal regard in spite of the other’s response; that seeks to be understanding without need to understand or to be understood; that risks, cares, gives, and shares with no need for reciprocity, no need to be respected, no need to be appreciated, no need to be thanked, and no need to enjoy the process.”