The Greatest Commandment Model™
A framework for your whole life with God.
Most of us know the Greatest Commandment. We've heard it preached, read it in Scripture, and tried to live it. What we haven't had is a clear, practical map of what it actually looks like across every part of who we are. That's what this model gives you.
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You shall love your neighbor as yourself." — Luke 10:27-28, ESV
Where it comes from
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Built from Scripture. Tested in research.
The Greatest Commandment has always been the summary of what a rightly ordered life looks like. Augustine organized his entire theology of love around it. Christian Psychology returns to it again and again as the most concise picture of human flourishing.
What was missing was a framework that took that structure seriously at a practical level — one that mapped what we know from well-being research onto what the commandment actually describes. Jen Collier developed the Greatest Commandment Model™ through a directed analysis of Christian Psychology literature as part of her graduate research at the University of East London. It is descriptive before it is prescriptive: it names what Christian well-being looks like before telling you how to grow.
How it's structured
Three relationships. Seven dimensions.
The model is organized around the relational structure of Luke 10:27-28. It is not a flat list of equal categories — it is ordered, because Scripture is ordered. Love the Lord is the source. Everything else flows from it.
Primary Dimension
Love the Lord
The organizing center of the model. Your relationship with God — the source from which everything else flows. Encompasses Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength.
Relational Dimension
Love Yourself
Not self-centeredness. The honest reception of what God has declared true about you, as someone made in His image and redeemed by His love.
Relational Dimension
Love Others
The overflow of a life rightly ordered. Love for others that is generated not by effort or obligation, but by something you are genuinely receiving.
The seven dimensions
Every part of who you are.
Each dimension describes a distinct facet of what it means to love God, yourself, and others with the whole person. They are not isolated categories — they are facets of a single integrated life.
Primary dimension
Love the Lord
The living relational dynamic between you and the God who initiates, sustains, and defines the relationship. This is not a category of religious behavior; it is the covenantal foundation your whole life is built on.
"Am I connected with God at the depth I want to be — or am I going through the motions?"
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit." — John 15:5
Dimension of Love the Lord
Heart
The governing center of your inner life — where your deepest loyalties, desires, and sense of purpose live. To love God with all your heart is to orient your whole motivational world toward Him.
"Am I living for what I actually think I'm living for?"
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." — Matthew 6:21
Dimension of Love the Lord
Soul
Your full emotional life — joy, grief, longing, fear, and awe. The Soul dimension asks whether you're bringing the real you to God, or a managed version. Not positivity. Honesty.
"Am I bringing my actual emotional life to God, or keeping parts of it hidden?"
"Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge." — Psalm 62:8
Dimension of Love the Lord
Mind
The framework through which you make sense of your life. Whose story are you telling about yourself, and does it sound more like God's truth or your history? The Mind dimension is about whose interpretation wins.
"Is the way I think about my life being shaped by God's truth, or by something else?"
"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." — Romans 12:2
Dimension of Love the Lord
Strength
Your active, embodied capacity — time, energy, skill, and effort. Not just what you do at church. Every part of your daily life, offered to God. Whether you're working, resting, eating, or serving.
"Is my daily life an act of love, or just an act?"
"Whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God." — 1 Corinthians 10:31
Relational Dimension
Love Yourself
Every person bears the image of God, including you. To refuse honest self-regard is, in this framework, to resist the love of the One whose image you carry. This dimension is about receiving what God has already declared true about you.
"Am I giving from fullness, or from a well I've never allowed to be filled?"
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." — Psalm 139:14
Relational Dimension
Love Others
The outward expression of a life rightly ordered. Not love generated by duty or willpower, love that overflows from a genuine source. Every person you encounter bears the same image of God you do. That changes everything about how you relate to them.
"Is the love I extend to others coming from God, or from reserves I'm running dry?"
"A new command I give you: love one another as I have loved you." — John 13:34
What this is not.
This is not a personality test. It does not tell you what type you are or which spiritual gift you have. It is not self-help: the model does not assume you are the source of your own flourishing. It is not therapy, and it is not a substitute for pastoral care or clinical support when those are needed.
It is a psychological framework informed by theology. A tool for understanding where you are in your journey, and what might help you grow. Descriptive before it is prescriptive. Honest before it is encouraging.
Psychology is the methodology. Scripture is the foundation and the authority.
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