Defining unconditional love

Editor’s note: This is a reprinted column from Jack Purcell’s “On the Journey” archives. It originally appeared in The Star in 2013.

I received an email this week with a picture of a rather large church sign on the lawn of a church somewhere in America. You could tell it was no backwater group in the middle of nowhere.

It was a very nice sign as church signs go, with one obvious exception ... what it said. It read, “God’s love is unconditional as long as you are obeying Christ.”