Fireproof: Love as Covenant Commitment - Baptist (1 Corinthians 13)

In Fireproof, firefighter Caleb is challenged to apply 1 Corinthians 13 to his failing marriage through "The Love Dare"—40 days of intentional love regardless of response. He learns that love is not feeling but decision, not earned but given, not natural but chosen. Baptist emphasis on personal decision shapes this reading: love requires the will's engagement. Marriage is covenant commitment, and 1 Corinthians 13 describes covenant love—patient when the partner fails, kind when they're difficult, not keeping score. Such love is possible because believers have first received it from Christ and now choose to extend it.