Making Sense of Love Pt. 5 - God's Love Sounds Differently

God is love (1 Jn. 4:8). Therefore, God gets to define what it looks, feels, tastes, smells, and sounds like. God’s love sounds different. Use 1 Corinthians to discuss how God’s love sounds and doesn’t sound. It certainly doesn’t sound like a resounding gong or clanging cymbal. It sounds a lot more like patience, forgiveness, humility, and selflessness. 1 Corinthians 13 NIV - 1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 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. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails… Let God’s love resound all around you.