READ: Galatians 5:13
What does the Galatians passage say about how we should be able to live? So why do certain people bind us up in knots when we think about or interact with them? What will free you from being tied up by them? According to this passage, what does it mean that you can love by serving them? Who will you serve today?
READ: 1 Peter 4:8; Ephesians 4:32
Who are the hardest people to love in your life? Why is it hard to love them? What does this verse say about how you are to treat those who have sinned against you. Think carefully about who needs to be loved by you. What needs to happen so that you can love them? Go ahead: As an act of your will determine to forgive them so that you can love them.
We are starting a new sermon series, looking into what it means to be a Christian community. How are we different from the world around us? What difference will that make?
READ: John 13:34-35
Is this a suggestion? What does that mean? What example do we have that shows us how we are to love? How has Jesus loved you? What does that mean to you in a practical way of how you should love others? Today, commit yourself to become a lover of people, especially those who don’t deserve it.