Pastor Theo reminded us that while our culture celebrates success, Heaven revels in the love we show one another.
MY STORY
What are the love languages of the people who are closest to you? (The Five Love Languages: Acts of Service, Gift-Giving, Quality Time, Touch, or Words of Affirmation)
WHAT DOES GOD WANT US TO HEAR?
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-13)
List out the characteristics of love, according to the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13.
What can happen to a loving relationship when one of these characteristics is neglected?
What is the relationship between faith, hope, and love? How do each of these gifts from God impact one another?
What does God want us to hear? Based on the passages above, what are the factual “takeaways” that are meaningful to you?
WHAT DOES GOD WANT US TO DO?
React to this statement:
“A potentially healthy relationship begins when one person finds out what’s important to another person — and that first person makes an effort to support, encourage, and participate in the other person’s priorities. And then, the actual healthy relationship is created and sustained when that degree of caring is reciprocated between both people.”
How would you use this statement to shape your understanding of genuine love?
What does God want us to do? Flowing from our reading and interpretation, what action does this passage or the Spirit’s nudging us toward?
WHAT DOES GOD WANT ME TO DO?
What relationship do you want to intentionally invest in this week?
What’s something you could do that would be meaningful to that person?
What does God want ME to do? What is the personal application and action step that the Holy Spirit is calling you toward?
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