Intimacy and Affection

Intimacy, Love, and Affection

Lets start with asking you what is the difference?

Intimacy: close familiarity or friendship; closeness."the intimacy between a husband and wife"

Love: an intense feeling of deep affection."babies fill parents with feelings of love"

Affection: Affectionate means showing, feeling, or characterized by fondness, love, or tenderness.

 It involves expressing warm regard and care for another person through words and actions.

 Essentially, it's about demonstrating love and appreciation in a caring and tender way

So you can love something but not interact with it.

LOVE

The word love in English translations of the OT may represent any one of a variety of Hebrew terms.

In translation, love appears with the wide range of meanings usually associated with this term in

English usage: affection, friendship, loyalty, desire, liking, attachment.

Yet each of the two commonly used Hebrew terms has a range of meanings that extends beyond the usual range of the English word love, and the range of meaning of the Hebrew terms overlaps but is not fully synonymous.

The meaning of each Hebrew term is therefore best described separately.

We can easily define different types of love:

Lets name a few:

sports teams

actions

Leaders

children

Spouse

Friends

...

AFFECTION:

Affection is different

IT IS A DEMOSTRATION of that LOVE

Discussion Question

Can you have affection with out LOVE?

Marriage in LOVE

We are here is a study series called SUMMER OF LIFE

our goal is for you to develop a life time of LOVE

that love for others is our command.

Biblical LOVE command:

Matthew 22:37–39 ESV

37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

and we have to discuss

1 Corinthians 13 ESV

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Now lets talk about love with the WORD giving us guidance

Marriage: LOVE

One very favorite source is the LOVE Languages by Gary Chapman

there are five specific love languages:

 words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, physical touch, and acts of service

What is yours?

What is your partners?

ACTION Steps:

Love with out action is tough to understand

CULTURAL TRAINING:

Dating today

Feeling —- Conditioning

EXPERIENTIAL:

Parents

Grandparents

Past Relationships

HOW DO WE START ANEW?

START WITH THE BIBLE

God Unconditional

Man Conditional

Discuss this:

Love must be put in practice