Loving Each Other
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Loving Each Other
Loving Each Other
Kidz World Today - Children’s Church
35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”
Confession of Faith
I am not moved by what I see or by what I feel. I am moved by what I believe. I believe the WORD of God! The victory is mine! I have it now! I can see it through the eyes of my faith! In Jesus name
More than fifty times in the New Testament we find the phrase one another or each other, telling us what God wants us to do for one another. The purpose of the church revolves around what we are to do for each other.
More than anything else, loving one another reveals whether or not we are truly Christians. It's neither the church we attend nor the doctrines we believe, but how we show our love for one another
When Jesus made this statement, He gave the world the right to judge us by our love. In this lesson we will use the word LOVE as an acrostic to reveal four requirements for loving one another as the Bible teaches.
Listen To People
Few things reveal our love for people like really listening to them. Listening is becoming a lost art because it requires tremendous concentration. Most people speak about 120 words a minute, but we listen, or think, three times faster than that. Therefore, as we listen to someone speak, our minds have a lot of time to wander. Most problems in marriage, parenting, and other relationships are listening problems.
19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
Loving one another by listening begins in the home. One man who was having real problems with his son went to a counselor. He said to the counselor, "I just don't understand my son. He won't listen to me." The counselor said, "I thought you got to understand people by listening to them, not by talking to them."
Men, one of the five basic needs of a woman is conversation, which is mostly listening. In a list of the five basic needs of a woman, marriage counselor Dr. Willard F. Harley, Jr. ranks conversation second. Conversation is more about listening than talking. Men, listen to what your wife feels and means, not just what she says. Sometimes a woman just needs someone who will lovingly listen to her express her feelings, hurts, and fears—without criticism or correction.
15 Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to others.
2. Offer Assistance
Everyone needs practical help. This also begins at home. Men, offer to help cook, wash dishes, clean the house, etc. Ask your wife what you can do around your home that would most show your love for her. Wives, offer to help your husband work on the car, play golf with him, go fishing with him, etc. Offer to help your children with their homework, or assist them in some other way.
Love is a verb—something you do, not just something you say
8 We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.
1 Thes. 2:
Loving one another requires we listen to people, and offer assistance
Value people
3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Value their loyalty. Some people have stuck with you through thick and thin—you can always count on them. Paul writes that he thanks God every time he thinks of the Philippian believers
Some of you have marriage partners who have stuck with you through a lot of junk. Maybe it was a mid-life crisis, an affair, a financial disaster, a health problem, etc. Maybe you're often in a bad mood and hard to live with at times. I know some people who have been in a bad mood for over 20 years, and that makes them hard to love.
2. Value their efforts. Don't take people's efforts for granted, regardless of the results. This is critically important for people with children or grandchildren. Don't forget to show appreciation for their efforts.
11 Timely advice is lovely, like golden apples in a silver basket.
So, we give "strokes" instead of "pokes."
Loving one another requires we listen to people, offer assistance, and value people
Emulate Jesus
The word "emulate" means to be like, or imitate.
34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
Emulate Jesus
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
That's what Jesus did when He died on the cross. He bore our sins on the cross to protect us from the consequences of our sins and from living a life without purpose.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
Loving one another requires we...
Listen to people,
O-ffer assistance,
V-alue people,
E-mulate Jesus.
You can't love like Jesus Christ if He is not in your heart as Savior and Lord.
Next Steps:
Read 1st Corinthians