LOVE PEOPLE WITH PATIENCE (3 OF 4)
by Steve Jones
Scripture: Ephesians 4:2
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Love People with Patience (3 of 4)
Series: Love People
Steve Jones
Ephesians 4:2
Sermon summary: In this sermon we discuss how to love people with patient love by: 1) Treating others as ''in process.'' 2) Recognizing patience' power to change relationships. 3) Listening in order to understand. 4) And speaking with a gentle voice.
INTRODUCTION: 3.24.18 - Police say a 37-year-old man was far from loving it when workers at a McDonald's restaurant in Oregon refused to make him 30 double cheeseburgers. He tried to destroy the golden arches. The News-Review reports that police arrested Jedediah Ezekiel Fulton on March 16 on suspicion of second-degree disorderly conduct, second-degree criminal trespass, second-degree criminal mischief and harassment. Authorities say Fulton became upset when the fast food restaurant in the western Oregon town of Sutherlin declined to make his order. Police say he destroyed a banner and then attacked the arches. The Sutherlin Police Department says he also grabbed a person's shirt and that a witness afraid for that person's life pulled out a gun. (McDonalds - if the food doesn't kill you one of the customers might!)
From ''McRage'' to ''road-rage'' it seems we're seeing and hearing about more impatience and less civility in our world today. We're impatient. When we walk to our cars in a parking lot we get impatient with drivers barreling through the lanes around us. Then as soon as we get in our cars, we become impatient with the pedestrians walking so slowly in front of us. If we get impatient with technology, cars and possessions, is it a surprise that we get impatient with people? Yet patience is one of the seven traits of a loving person. Paul writes in I Corinthians 13:4 ''Love is patient.'' Only an intentional choice to love will allow us to develop patience in today's world. Today as we continue our series on loving people I want to talk about four characteristics of loving patience.
I. LOVING PATIENCE TREATS OTHERS ...
Series: Love People
Steve Jones
Ephesians 4:2
Sermon summary: In this sermon we discuss how to love people with patient love by: 1) Treating others as ''in process.'' 2) Recognizing patience' power to change relationships. 3) Listening in order to understand. 4) And speaking with a gentle voice.
INTRODUCTION: 3.24.18 - Police say a 37-year-old man was far from loving it when workers at a McDonald's restaurant in Oregon refused to make him 30 double cheeseburgers. He tried to destroy the golden arches. The News-Review reports that police arrested Jedediah Ezekiel Fulton on March 16 on suspicion of second-degree disorderly conduct, second-degree criminal trespass, second-degree criminal mischief and harassment. Authorities say Fulton became upset when the fast food restaurant in the western Oregon town of Sutherlin declined to make his order. Police say he destroyed a banner and then attacked the arches. The Sutherlin Police Department says he also grabbed a person's shirt and that a witness afraid for that person's life pulled out a gun. (McDonalds - if the food doesn't kill you one of the customers might!)
From ''McRage'' to ''road-rage'' it seems we're seeing and hearing about more impatience and less civility in our world today. We're impatient. When we walk to our cars in a parking lot we get impatient with drivers barreling through the lanes around us. Then as soon as we get in our cars, we become impatient with the pedestrians walking so slowly in front of us. If we get impatient with technology, cars and possessions, is it a surprise that we get impatient with people? Yet patience is one of the seven traits of a loving person. Paul writes in I Corinthians 13:4 ''Love is patient.'' Only an intentional choice to love will allow us to develop patience in today's world. Today as we continue our series on loving people I want to talk about four characteristics of loving patience.
I. LOVING PATIENCE TREATS OTHERS ...
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