Unconditional Love

God loves us unconditionally, I am sure most of us have heard that, but usually beyond that its only our kids that we might love unconditionally ( not that I have any, but that's what I've heard).  So what about everyone else?  I mean Jesus loves everyone, and we are suppose to represent him aren't we?  So how do we love unconditionally?  I mean are we suppose to make ourselves feel that way?  In a book I once read there was a character who eventually tried to commit suicide and failed.  The thing was that no one like this character because he was always talking so much, he never shut up.  I mean this kid talked so much that everyone called him Mouth. The only kid who at least wasn't mean to mouth was the main character, at one point the main character was confessing to a friend that he felt bad because Mouth had tried to commit suicide, because he didn't like Mouth, he tried to be nice to Mouth, but he was just annoying.  The friend in the story told the main character, which is easier to be nice to someone because you like them or to be nice to someone because even though you don't like them its the right thing to do. 
     In Plato's philosophy he believed that no one had virtue, he believed that no one was virtuous.  But Plato believed that if you pretended to be virtuous enough, that eventually you would become virtuous.  So the only way to love people unconditionally I would say is to do just that, love or pretend to love them unconditionally, the actual feeling of love will eventually follow I believe.

Hmm...Church

So this whole blog thing, I really like the idea, but I don't know if its going to work out.  So often, I just don't feel like writing anything.  But I guess its always here for when I do feel like writing.  Being a college student and all I have looked at a few different churches in my area.  I did find one that I really like, but of course it is also lacking a few things in its theological department, but I still really like it.  This church is a Vineyard church, apparently its a denomination I guess you would say, thats not what they call it but for all tense and purposes its a denomination.  At the Vineyard things are done differently.  First, worship is a lot less scripted I guess you would say than normal.  They believe highly in just waiting for the Lord, or if they feel Him they will keep on playing the song.  Then after worship the any kind of emotion I guess is kind of died down, they try and not build up any hype during the sermon or after it.  Then there is not your traditional altar call, at the end of the service there is no music, but there may be a bit of prophetic ministry or there may be the ministry team ready to pray for anyone who wants it.  From talking to others about this church the only thing they seem to be missing is the Gospel.  They really never tell the gospel as the simple message, so I mean its a great place for Christians, but as far as doing ministry I am not sure how the church is.  I am under the impression that they believe that the job of the church is to disciple others and then the other go out into the world and make disciples of others as well.  And honestly I am not sure if that is biblical or not. There are so many things that I am unsure of; all I know how to do is stay on my toes. 
     I do prefer this church over two other churches that I visited.  One church seemed to have political battle going on between the younger and the older generation.  I was just repulsed by the undertone of that.  The church kind of felt hollow.  Another church I visited felt like they just put on a mask and were just faking worship.
    So I don't know, all of these are different from my home church, and I mean I guess the question is what should the real modern day church look like?  It seems to me that many of our churches have missed the point.  Have some made it?