Loving One Another
By this everyone will know that we are His disciples.
What is if we love one another?
We discussed having a real understanding of who we are as a person will help us to truly love ourselves. One thing we learned is:
To love me is to ____ me.
What is know?
(we need to be honest with ourselves and get to know ourselves for who we really are strengths and weaknesses, spiritual gifts and callings)
We should love our neighbor as _____.
What is ourselves?
God's love is a _____ gift with no expectation of repayment.
What is free?
1 Corinthians gives us a long description of love. As a result we know
Love is...
What is:
kind
patient
Believers in Christ love as He loves because of this spirit.
What is the Holy spirit?
Self-love seeks freedom from this.
What are negative thoughts about oneself?
There are plenty of commandments in the bible. We even have what is considered the ten commandments but there is a commandment in which there is none greater than this.
This is the greatest commandment.
What is to love thy neighbor as thyself?
Explain God's sacrifical love for us.
What is Jesus's voluntary death on the cross for our sins?
Love is...
not ____ ______ ______.
name 3 things
What is:
is not: selfseeking, jealous, boastful, proud, irritable, easily angered
This parable told by Jesus shows what it means to love your neighbor—even if they’re considered your enemy.
What is The Parable of the Good Samaritan?
How we treat _____ is how we treat others.
What is ourself?
Name 2 ways to show love to our neighbor.
What is:
see our neighbor
forgive others/ ask for forgiveness
pray for our neighbors
rejoice/ mourn
be teachable
ask hard questions about ourselves
refuse a judgmental spirit
This act of pure humility from Jesus shows us how we should love others.
What is wash his disciples' feet?
God's love inspires and motivates us to ____ _____.
What is love others?
Jesus taught a new commandment to love others as _____ ______ ____ you.
What is I have loved?
In Mark 12:31, Jesus says to “love your neighbor as” this person.
What is yourself?
Loving your neighbor can mean forgiving them. In Matthew 18, Jesus tells Peter to forgive this many times.
What is seventy times seven (or 77 times)?
In the parable of the prodigal son, the father represents God’s love by doing this when he sees his son from a distance.
What is running to him and embracing him?
Love is the sign to the world that we ____ ____ __ _____.
What is "are followers of Jesus?"
Scripture tells us we are to love God with all of ___ ____, ____, ____, and _____.
What is "our heart, soul, mind, and strength?"
Name two things that we hold onto that keep us from truly loving ourselves.
What are bitterness, unforgiveness, hatred, disappointment, insecurities.
A person who is an enemy is still a neighbor. We love our enemy by ______.
What is :
being understanding that they are loved by God just as much as I am
they were created in Gods image
pray for them (pray for those who despitefully use you)
give- time, resources, compassion (for God So loved the world that he gave
In Isaiah 49:15, God compares His love for His people to this common, nurturing bond, assuring them He will never forget them.
What is “a mother’s love for her child”?
1 Corinthians 13: 4 and 6
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not ____, it does not ____, it is not ___.
6 Love does not ____ in ____ but rejoices with the ____.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.