Learning to Love, Part One

Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW is a community of students learning to love Jesus, to love others, and love this campus. We’re a group for the convinced and the unconvinced, the confident and the doubting, the struggling and the seeking. This fall, we're exploring the Ten Commandments in the book of Deuteronomy. In this message, we learn about the nature of our relationship to God. The preface to the 10 Commandments tells us the Christian Life is not about achieving love, but is instead about remembering, repenting and resting in the love that God has secured for us through his costly work of redemption. ______________________________________________________________https://bibleproject.com/videos/torah-deuteronomy/“Remembering a history of a costly liberation … reminds us that we all owe our duty to an authority greater than ourselves … [this] explains why the giving of the Ten Commandments doesn't actually begin with the utterance of the first commandment. Instead it begins with a brief history lesson recalling a costly liberation and establishing who is in charge.” - Jen Wilkin“The heart of Christianity is not a set of doctrines to believe, even though sound doctrine is vital. Nor is the heart of Christianity an activity to pursue, even though the Christian faith is necessarily active. Nor is it essentially a set of disciplines, even though without reading the Bible and praying we will not get far in the Christian life. The heart of Christianity is ..."to live upon God." You were made for God. To know him. Enjoy him. Revere him. Draw strength from him. Trust him. Love him.”— Dane Ortland"The preface to the Ten Commandments is, “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” In this, God manifests his sovereignty as being I AM, the eternal, immutable, and almighty God, having his being in and of himself and giving being to all his words and works, and manifests that he is a God in covenant, as with Israel of old, and so with all his people. As he brought them out of their slavery in Egypt, so he delivers us from our spiritual slavery, and therefore we are bound to take him as our God alone and to keep all his commandments" -Westminster Larger Catechism Q&A 101“[The] Christian Life is a response to the love of God” - Kelly Kapic