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I - Quick Example of Love being played out in all areas of my life
Last Friday afternoon, I was sitting preparing this very sermon, I was in the zone and ideas were flowing.
And then came the small, quiet voice in my ears, “Love, do you want to help me print out these Winter Bash tickets.”
Hannah was sitting in my room and she wanted my help.
And I thought, “Not particularly, but alas I shall.”
So down we go to the printer room in the Library, and we start printing these tickets, and she asks me if I wouldn’t mind cutting them out for her as well.
One by one.
And turns out there at 72 of these tickets.
Very nicely designed may I add, but 72 of them.
And I was sitting there with my sheets of card and a pair of scissors, a bit tired and exhausted (I know, its a hard life!) and I was just doing it with the wrong attitude.
I felt as though I was doing this purely out of obligation to my girlfriend, rather than doing it out of love.
This wasn’t an act of love, and I recognised that in myself.
Admittedly it did help that just minutes before I had been preparing a sermon on this very topic, but I was able to identify that in myself and make an effort to change my mindset.
We are not simply called to love one another when in church or in a worship setting.
The life of love is exactly that; a love that permeates all areas of life and transforms us in light of the Gospel message that we have received.
You - Challenge for an area of the congregation’s life where they are not doing something out of love, but instead out of obligation
I’m sure there are things in your life that you do fairly regularly and you just think, ‘Urgh, do I really have to do this?’ ‘Urgh, if I have to, I suppose I will.’
‘If I have to be kind to this person and treat them with respect and honour them, I will.
Urgh.’
But the main point of the passage we’re looking at today is that everything that you do in your life ought to be done as an expression of love.
In everything you do, let there be love.
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