What is true love?
Love Your Neighbor, 5 of 7, April 28th, 2024
“True love serves loyally for the long-haul.”
1 Corinthians 13:4 by Michael Lockstampfor (miklocks)
REFLECTION & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
💬 Who has exhausted our patience?
💬 How will we draw more from Jesus’ well?
💬 What feelings arise in us when we imagine serving others?
💬 How will we serve like Jesus this week?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
📖 Read 1 Corinthians 13
📖 Letter written to a church that Paul had started and served for 18 months (Acts 18)
📖 YHWH’s self-definition includes “slow to anger” (Exodus 34:5-7)
📖 Psalm 103 exalts God’s lovingkindness/hesed 4Xs (Psalm 103:4, 8, 11, 17)
📖 God IS patient His desire is for everyone to be saved (2 Peter 3:9)
📖 Jesus followers are instructed to be “quick to hear, slow to...anger” (James 1:19)
📖 “Pure religion” is visiting widows and orphans with integrity (James 1:27)
📖 Every biographer of Jesus states that He came to serve rather than be served (Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; Luke 22:27; John 13)
📖 Jesus served unto death as our example (1 Peter 2:21-25)
📖 Pastors should serve eagerly, not begrudgingly (1 Peter 5:2-3)
📖 Consider others’ preference as better than yours (Philippians 2:1-11)
📖 God’s kindness is designed to lead us to repentance (Romans 2:4)
