LOUIS KOTZE

Romans 12:9-21 NLTMarks of the true Christian

• Really Love• Hate wrong, hold on to good• Honour each other• Work hard• Keep praying• Help the needy

• Practice hospitality• Bless those who persecute • Be happy and weep• Live in harmony• Enjoy company with ordinary

people• Don’t repay evil with evil

Romans 12:9-21 NLT

Marks of the true Christian• Love • Morality• Work ethic• Spirituality• Social impact

LoveHuman love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ’s sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

MoralityMatthew 22:36-40 NLT“Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

Being community• Work ethic• Spirituality• Social impact