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Becoming AMore Loving
Person
The Power ToChange Your Life
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Love is misunderstood
Love has lost itsmeaning
Love is more than afeeling
Love is notuncontrollable
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Things that love is
Love is a choice
And over all thesevirtuesput onlove, whichbinds them all together in
perfect unit!" #Colossians $%&' ()*+
Love is a conduct
-ear children, let us notlovewith words or tonguebut with actionsand intruth!" # & .ohn $%&/()*+
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0iblical 1ords of Love
&! 2torge 3 natural affection
4! 5ros 3 se6ual attraction
$! Philia 3 emotionalaffection or friendship
'! Agape 3 unconditional,giving, sacrificial love
Love is an act ofcontinual commitment7"
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2teps to e6hibitcontinuall committedlove
8so that Christ ma dwellin our hearts throughfaith! And * pra that ou,being rooted and establishedin love,may have power,together with all thesaints, to grasphow wideand long and high and deepis the love of Christ8" #
5phesians $%&9#&/ ()*+
: command is this% Loveeach other as * have lovedou!"# .ohn &;%&4 ()*+
1. ExperienceGods love
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1. ExperienceGods love
2. Forgive your
enemies
2teps to e6hibitcontinuall committed
love
0ear with each otherand forgive whatevergrievances ou ma have
against one another!
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1. ExperienceGods love
2. Forgive your
enemies
3. Marinate yourmind withloving
thoughts
2teps to e6hibitcontinuall committedlove
5ach of ou shouldloo= not onl to ourown interests, but also
to the interests ofothers! Your attitudeshould be the same asthat of Christ .esus!"# Philippians 4%'#;()*+
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1. ExperienceGods love
2. Forgive your
enemies
3. Marinate yourmind withlovingthoughts
4. ct in aloving way
>ow do * act in a lovingwa?
&!Love our enemies @ 5ph '%4
4!-o good
$!0less those who curse us
'!Pra for those who mistreat
us
2teps to e6hibitcontinuall committedlove
How You
Think
What I ThinkWhat I FeelHow I Act
How You
Feel
How You
Act
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1. ExperienceGods love
2. Forgive your
enemies
3. Marinate yourmind withlovingthoughts
4. ct in aloving way
Love is patient, love is =ind! *t doesnot env, it does not boast, it is notproud! *t is not rude, it is not self#see=ing, it is not easil angered, it=eeps no record of wrongs! Love doesnot delight in evil but reoices withthe truth! *t alwas protects, alwastrusts, alwas hopes, alwasperseveres! Love never fails! 0ut wherethere are prophecies, the will ceaseBwhere there are tongues, the will be
stilledB where there is =nowledge, itwill pass awa!" # & Corinthians &$%'#/()*+
2teps to e6hibitcontinuall committedlove
How You
Think
What I ThinkWhat I FeelHow I Act
How You
Feel
How You
Act
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1. ExperienceGods love
2. Forgive your
enemies
3. Marinate yourmind withlovingthoughts
4. ct in a lovingway
!. Expect the
"est
2teps to e6hibitcontinuall committedlove
5. Expect the best
*t alwas protects,alwas trusts, alwashopes, alwasperseveres!"# &Corinthians &$%9 ()*+
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=es to resurrecting a love
Yet * hold this against ou% You have
forsa=en our first love! Remembertheheight from which ou have fallen7 Repentand dothe things ou did at first! *f oudo not repent, * will come to ou and removeour lamp stand from its place!" #evelations 4%'#; ()*+
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0ecoming A :ore Loving Person
Things towhich love is
Des toresurrect a
love
1ords to e6press0iblical wordsof love
2teps to e6hibitcontinuouslcommitted love
&!Choice
4!Conduct
&!emember
4!epent
$!epeat
&!2torge
4!5ros
$!Philia
'!Agape
&!56perience Eods love4!
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