To be Christian toward another person is to be willing to walk with them all the way to their Golgotha, and to remain long enough to witness their resurrection.

Love does not deny or scoff at a person’s flaws, habits, or present struggles. It simply refuses to believe that those things are the whole truth about them.
Love looks beyond what is broken and recognizes the fuller person they are becoming; the person they will be when they are whole.

To reach toward someone with genuine love is to see them, as Jesus sees you.

It means responding not merely to the moment before you, but to the possibility within the person standing before you.
Love holds a faithful vision of who another person may become, and it responds with patience, dignity, courage, and grace.

That is the way of Christ.