Preachers! Avoid the agape fallacy!

The "agape fallacy" is the idea that whenever agape appears in the New Testament, it refers to a higher, more godly kind of love than phileo. You've probably heard something like that preached and, like me, you may have preached it yourself at one time. It's a neat explanation, but it has the downside of being untrue. For a beautifully concise explanation of the agape fallacy, see this post at TheDickensFamily.org. You'll have to click a couple of times to open the PowerPoint presentation, but it's well worth the effort.