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Love: Motivation

Love: Motivation. THE PHBF STORY : Who We Are & What We’re About. Love's Necessity. Worthless without love: Tongues Prophecy Knowledge Faith Giving. Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE. Love's Necessity. It is easier to be orthodox than to be loving,

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Love: Motivation

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  1. Love:Motivation THE PHBF STORY: Who We Are & What We’re About

  2. Love's Necessity • Worthless without love: • Tongues • Prophecy • Knowledge • Faith • Giving Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  3. Love's Necessity It is easier to be orthodox than to be loving, and easier to be active in church work that to be loving. Yet the supreme characteristic that God demands of His people is love. In opposing that love, the enemy of the church makes some of his supreme efforts. ~ John MacArthur, 1 Corinthians Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  4. Love's Activity • Sixteen action verbs: • Love patients. • Love kinds. • Love envies not. • Love boasts not. • Love puffs up not. • Love acts rude not. • Love seeks its own not. • Love gets provoked not. • Love resents not. • Love delights not in evil. • Love delights in truth. • Love protects. • Love trusts. • Love hopes. • Love perseveres. • Love never fails. Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  5. Love's Fundamentals • Love is patient. • Love is kind. Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  6. Love's Denials • Love does not envy. • Love does not boast, is not arrogant. • Love is not rude. • Love does not insist on its own way. Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  7. Love's Refusals • Love is not irritable. • Love is not resentful. • Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing. Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  8. Love's Universals • Love bears all things. • Love believes all things. • Love hopes all things. • Love endures all things. • Love never fails. Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  9. How can we love like this? • Don't wait on your feelings. Act. • Preach the gospel to yourself every day. • 7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Who-ever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John 4:7-10 Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

  10. How can we love like this? When my mind is fixed on the gospel, I have ample stimulation to show God’s love to other people. For I am always willing to show love to others when I am freshly mindful of the love that God has shown me. ~ Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians Who We Are & What We’re About LOVE

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