Pastor Phil Vance
What is Love?
Sunday, April 17th, 2016
Highlights:
- God is Love. Know God, know love…..No God, No love.
- Love is Action – it is demonstrated.
- Love Makes the First Move.
- Love is a Command.
- Love is Sacrificial.
- Love is Unconditional.
Discussion Questions and Action Steps:
1. Action steps:
– Forgive a person who hurt you.
– Actively choose to love a person you know who desperately needs it.
2. How has knowing God helped you to know love?
3. From the “Love is” list that Pastor Phil gave us, what one is God working in your life now to experience personally or to give away?
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
– Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:7-11 NIV
- You must know God (the originator and author of love) in order to really give out love.
- Affection is a response true love is initiatory.
- Experiencing the love of God makes us lovers for God. The love we experience from God is to be shared with others.
- We love Him because He first loved us. 1 John 4:19
- Being hurt is a result of denied love. The more potential for Deeper Love produces the more potential for deeper hurt.
- An this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 1 John 4:21
- Love is laying down your life foe another making their needs, wants and desires more important than your own.
- When we are at our worst, God is showing us His best.