THIS THING CALLED LOVE (7 OF 7)
Scripture: John 13:34-35
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This Thing Called Love (7 of 7)
Series: Discipleship: Be One Make One
Collin Wimberly
John 13:34-35
CIT: Jesus commands the disciples to love one another.
PROPOSITION: Love should define and distinguish the Church.
INTRODUCTION:
I may be somewhat Idealistic, but I believe that the Church ought to be different than the world. I think there ought to be something about God's people that causes us to stand out from the rest of the crowd.
What really ought to set us apart is our love for one another.
The NT makes it clear that Love is supposed to be the rule for Church life.
However, many Churches are divisive, some are cliquish, some fight incessantly, some are full of prejudice and racial division. Many times when the world looks at the church and how we relate to each other, they don't see any difference between them and us.
Christ's Church should be a place of acceptance, forgiveness, openness, honesty, and security. Our love for Christ and each other should be the defining character traits of First Baptist Church.
Christlike Love should be the rule of our homes, the foundation of our marriages, the guiding principle of our child rearing. Love should dominate every aspect of our lives from dating to death.
For the next few weeks we will take a look at what the Bible has to say about love within the Church.
In our passage Jesus gives the disciples a directive to love, the distinctive of love, and the design of love.
I want to challenge you to be a greater lover of God's people.
1. DISCIPLES ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER - vs. 34
A command is an injunction, a charge, a precept.
- Love is first and foremost a command to be kept, a principle to obey. It is last of all an emotion to be felt. Society thinks of love as basically an emotion. Something we fall into and fall out of. This is alien to Scripture.
Love is a disciplined choice, a matter of the will that will later produce an emotional response.
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Series: Discipleship: Be One Make One
Collin Wimberly
John 13:34-35
CIT: Jesus commands the disciples to love one another.
PROPOSITION: Love should define and distinguish the Church.
INTRODUCTION:
I may be somewhat Idealistic, but I believe that the Church ought to be different than the world. I think there ought to be something about God's people that causes us to stand out from the rest of the crowd.
What really ought to set us apart is our love for one another.
The NT makes it clear that Love is supposed to be the rule for Church life.
However, many Churches are divisive, some are cliquish, some fight incessantly, some are full of prejudice and racial division. Many times when the world looks at the church and how we relate to each other, they don't see any difference between them and us.
Christ's Church should be a place of acceptance, forgiveness, openness, honesty, and security. Our love for Christ and each other should be the defining character traits of First Baptist Church.
Christlike Love should be the rule of our homes, the foundation of our marriages, the guiding principle of our child rearing. Love should dominate every aspect of our lives from dating to death.
For the next few weeks we will take a look at what the Bible has to say about love within the Church.
In our passage Jesus gives the disciples a directive to love, the distinctive of love, and the design of love.
I want to challenge you to be a greater lover of God's people.
1. DISCIPLES ARE COMMANDED TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER - vs. 34
A command is an injunction, a charge, a precept.
- Love is first and foremost a command to be kept, a principle to obey. It is last of all an emotion to be felt. Society thinks of love as basically an emotion. Something we fall into and fall out of. This is alien to Scripture.
Love is a disciplined choice, a matter of the will that will later produce an emotional response.
...
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