Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.
1 John 2:9-10

1. TEST #3: If you claim to be in the __________, do you love your fellow ___________?

2. We are members of a community formed by a __________ God of __________.

3. Hatred flows from an aversion to ____________.

4. God's love for us in Christ leads us to love all who are ________ __________.


Scripture Readings
Isaiah 6:1-8
1 John 2:9-11
John 3:1-17

Take It With You!

As we spend our Summer growing in the love of God, it will be helpful for everyone to be reading through 1 John daily. Here helpful insights will be offered to aid in your study.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, 'Where I am going you cannot come.' A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
John 13:31-35

I haven't come for only you,
but for My people to pursue.
You cannot care for Me,
With no regard for her,
If you love Me, you will love the church.
- Derek Webb The Church on the album She Must and Shall Go Free

When Scripture tells the story of how God reaches out, it does not merely use objective, descriptive, or scientific language, but rather the warmest, most intimate, most involving, engaging, and powerfully moving metaphor in human experience: love.
- Thomas Oden The Living God: Systematic Theology Vol 1