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Dear Christian, Do You Really Love Others?

A simple six-question quiz to tell if your love for others is genuine.

J.L. Pattison
4 min readMay 11, 2021

1). The Coffee Shop

You’re sipping coffee in a cafe when you notice a woman at another table get up to get a napkin, leaving her coffee unattended on the table. As she does, a man walks by her table, pours an unknown liquid from a vial into the woman’s coffee, and quickly exits the shop. You immediately warn this woman of what just happened.

What you just did is . . .

A. Loving

You may have saved that woman’s life.

B. Unloving

What that man slipped into that woman’s coffee is none of your business. It’s between him and her. Quit interfering with other people’s lives.

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2). The Serpent

A child’s brightly colored ball rolls under a bush. He runs toward the bush to retrieve it, but you know the bush contains a rattlesnake nest. Just before the child reaches his hand beneath the bush, you yell for him to stop.

Yelling at this child to stop is . . .

A. Loving

You may have saved that’s child’s life.

B. Unloving

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J.L. Pattison
J.L. Pattison

Written by J.L. Pattison

Called "A 21st Century Rod Serling," JL Pattison is the author of 4 books of contemporary speculative fiction for modern-day thought criminals. JLPattison.com

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