Loving kindness (3 of 8)
Series: Love as a Way of Life
Steve Jones
I Corinthians 13
SUMMARY: There are four ways to show loving kindness: 1) Adopt a kind attitude. 2) Make kind observations. 3) Speak kind words. 4) Engage in kind actions. Let's explore each one.
INTRODUCTION: A Sunday school teacher was telling her class the story of the Good Samaritan, in which a man was beaten, robbed and left for dead. A Samaritan helped the poor man. She described the situation in vivid detail so her students would catch the drama. Then, she asked the class, ''If you saw a person lying on the roadside, all wounded and bleeding, what would you do?'' A thoughtful little girl broke the hushed silence, ''I think I'd throw up.''
Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate his teaching that we are all to love our neighbors. Someone asked Jesus, ''Who is my neighbor?'' To which Jesus replied with the parable of the Good Samaritan. Two points from the parable: The neighbor we're to love is anyone who is in need. Point two: the way we're to love this neighbor is to help meet their need through loving-kindness.
We are in a sermon series entitled ''Love as a way of life.'' We're taking our cues on how to live lives of love from Paul's description of love in I Corinthians 13.
I Corinthians 13:4 ''Love is kind.''
I want us to note four ways that we can grow in the area of loving-kindness today.
I. ADOPT A KIND ATTITUDE
Ephesians 4:32 ''Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.''
Most of us will admit that if we are to become truly kind people we need to experience a change of attitude. That starts with the bedrock conviction that through Christ, God has expressed his kindness to us and in receiving that kindness we are obligated to show kindness to others.
ILLUSTRATION: One man said ''Every morning I put on my glasses, my pants and shirt, my jacket, and my cap. Then I picture myself ...
Series: Love as a Way of Life
Steve Jones
I Corinthians 13
SUMMARY: There are four ways to show loving kindness: 1) Adopt a kind attitude. 2) Make kind observations. 3) Speak kind words. 4) Engage in kind actions. Let's explore each one.
INTRODUCTION: A Sunday school teacher was telling her class the story of the Good Samaritan, in which a man was beaten, robbed and left for dead. A Samaritan helped the poor man. She described the situation in vivid detail so her students would catch the drama. Then, she asked the class, ''If you saw a person lying on the roadside, all wounded and bleeding, what would you do?'' A thoughtful little girl broke the hushed silence, ''I think I'd throw up.''
Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate his teaching that we are all to love our neighbors. Someone asked Jesus, ''Who is my neighbor?'' To which Jesus replied with the parable of the Good Samaritan. Two points from the parable: The neighbor we're to love is anyone who is in need. Point two: the way we're to love this neighbor is to help meet their need through loving-kindness.
We are in a sermon series entitled ''Love as a way of life.'' We're taking our cues on how to live lives of love from Paul's description of love in I Corinthians 13.
I Corinthians 13:4 ''Love is kind.''
I want us to note four ways that we can grow in the area of loving-kindness today.
I. ADOPT A KIND ATTITUDE
Ephesians 4:32 ''Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.''
Most of us will admit that if we are to become truly kind people we need to experience a change of attitude. That starts with the bedrock conviction that through Christ, God has expressed his kindness to us and in receiving that kindness we are obligated to show kindness to others.
ILLUSTRATION: One man said ''Every morning I put on my glasses, my pants and shirt, my jacket, and my cap. Then I picture myself ...
There are 21481 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
