Walking in Light | Love in Action | Week 5

Teacher: Dave BrownDear 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. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.— 1 John 4:7-12“The English word love is trying to do so many different jobs at the same time that someone really ought to sit down with it and teach it how to delegate.”— N.T. WrightFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son…— John 3:16This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.— 1 John 4:10Love is not just something God does. It is who God is.Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.— 1 John 4:8Love is the language they speak in God’s world, and we are summoned to learn it against the day when God’s world and ours will be brought together forever. It is the music they make in God’s courts, and we are invited to learn it and practice it in advance. Love is not a 'duty,' even our highest duty. It is our destiny.— N.T. Wright, After You BelieveLove is a disciple, a practice, an act of the will.Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.— 1 Corinthians 13:4-8aThe great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity