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CLS TALK 5: Loving Your Neighbor

CFC Singles for Family and Life: CHRISTIAN LIFE SEMINAR. CLS TALK 5: Loving Your Neighbor. Loving neighbor, together with loving God, form the core of the Christian life. What Christian love is NOT. Love is not only having positive feelings. Love is not always saying YES.

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CLS TALK 5: Loving Your Neighbor

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  1. CFC Singles for Family and Life: CHRISTIAN LIFE SEMINAR CLS TALK 5: Loving Your Neighbor

  2. Loving neighbor, together with loving God, form the core of the Christian life.

  3. What Christian love is NOT

  4. Love is not only having positive feelings.

  5. Love is not always saying YES.

  6. Love is not defensive.

  7. Love is not self-seeking.

  8. Love is not manipulative.

  9. What is Christian Love?

  10. “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” John 15: 9-10

  11. “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” John 15:12

  12. Jesus loves with a self –sacrificial love

  13. How do we translate this love into practical terms?

  14. Christian love is committed service

  15. Who is your neighbor? Can you choose whom to love?

  16. Lk 10:29b-27: The Good Samaritan. The Jews hated the Samaritans, who had inter-married among the gentiles. Thus it was remarkable for this Samaritan to help the Jew who was robbed and beaten.

  17. ALL persons in need of help is our neighbor

  18. How do we love in everyday life?

  19. Love is patient

  20. Love is kind

  21. Love is not jealous

  22. Love is not pompous or inflated

  23. Love is not rude

  24. Love is not self-seeking

  25. Love is not quick-tempered

  26. Love is not brooding over injury

  27. Love does not rejoice over wrong doing

  28. Love rejoices with the truth

  29. Love forebears

  30. Love trusts

  31. Love hopes

  32. Love endures

  33. Discussion starter • How has your understanding of love changed based on its biblical meaning? 2. How have you loved your neighbor? Or how have you failed to love in everyday life?

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