What of Love?
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Series: Finding God in Our Questions Topic: Topical Passage: 1 John 4:13–4:21
Recap and Review
Introduction and Clues
An important question
Is ultimate reality personal or non personal?
Two feelings we have
Transcendence and Immanence
What of Love?
Love is God?
God is Love!
Old Testament
Lamentations 3:22-24, Exodus 34:5-9
New Testament
Romans 5:8, John 15:13, 1 John 4:7-12
The Spoils of Love's Sacrifice…
- Propitiation
- Redemption
- Justification
- Reconciliation
Community Meditation
Growing in knowledge
- Discuss the huge significance and smallness of human beings. How does an materialist conception of the world minimize the importance of love?
- Have you ever considered all the wonders that love’s war on sin has accomplished in Jesus Christ? Consider together the four theological truths that Jesus’s self-giving, self-sacrificing love accomplished for us.
Feeling life deeply
- How do your disappointments in relationships (family, friends, lovers) point to our longing for perfect love?
Living with courage
- Where do you need to forgive because of love? If God has forgiven us in Christ, how can we not do the same for others?
- In what ways can you better love your friends, family, those who are outside of the faith etc. in more than just words. Make a list of people in your life and think of practical action to love them with no strings attached.
other sermons in this series
Nov 6
2011
The Enigma of Jesus
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:5–4:6 Series: Finding God in Our Questions
Oct 30
2011
Ball Game? What of Death and Eternity?
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Passage: Ecclesiastes 7:1–7:6 Series: Finding God in Our Questions
Oct 16
2011
Why do mean people suck?
Speaker: Reid S. Monaghan Passage: Luke 10:25–10:37 Series: Finding God in Our Questions