All You Need Is Love
Acts 3:19-20
Pastor Bob Hiller
4/19/2015
Series:
Liar, Liar
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/B3Z6YUZeb6A
1 John 4:10-11 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Myth #1: Love can ____________.
Truth #1: Love is for ____________.
Myth #2: Love is an ____________.
Truth #2: Love is an ____________.
Myth #3: All you need is ____________.
Truth #3: ____________ is all you need.
Scripture Readings
Acts 3:11-21
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Luke 24:36-49
Take It With You!
As we learn how to live as disciples of Jesus Christ, here helpful tools will be offered to aid in your study.
Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen - which is precisely why such incredible things do happen! Meaning, one-way love is the answer to whatever relational strife you're experiencing at the moment, but as soon as it's employed as a fix, it is no longer one-way. It is paradoxical in this respect. The theological way to express this truth is that the command to love is the Law, but the experience of belovedness is Gospel. This doesn't mean that trying to be loving or gracious with another person is ever a bad thing - of course not! It's better than being malicious, and to say otherwise would be to make a contract with despair. But when we find loving another person to be utterly impossible, we can rest in the knowledge that when transforming love comes, it will flow without coercion from a grateful heart, not because of an exertion of our willpower. In fact, the human condition being what it is, one-way love more often than not flows in spite of the exertion of willpower.
Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love.
