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Matthew 7: 12Treat others as you want them to treat you. This is what the Law and the Prophets are all about. (CEV)
Luke 6: 32If you love only someone who loves you, will God praise you for that? Even sinners love people who love them.
John 3: 16God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. (CEV)
John 14: 23.... If anyone loves me, they will obey me. Then my Father will love them, and we will come to them and live in them. (CEV)
Matthew 22: 36"Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. 38This is the first and most important commandment. 39The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, "Love others as much as you love yourself." 40All the Law of Moses and the Books of the Prophets are based on these two commandments. (CEV)
Matthew 13: 12Everyone who has something will be given more. But people who don't have anything will lose even what little they have. 13I use stories when I speak to them because when they look, they cannot see, and when they listen, they cannot hear or understand. (CEV)
Romans 8: 38I am sure that nothing can separate us
from God's love not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present
or the future, 39and not powers above or powers below. Nothing
in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus
our Lord! (CEV)
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Galatians 2: 20I have died, but Christ lives in me. And I now live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me. (CEV)
1 John 4: 17If we truly love others and live as Christ did in this world, we won't be worried about the day of judgment. 18A real love for others will chase those worries away. (CEV)
1. Why is it especially important for leaders to love and serve the
people in their groups?
2. What makes us want to use our time to prepare for leading a small
group of disciples?
3. How can we use our experience as moms, dads, and children to help
a group to love God?
4. When Jesus chose to live closely with 12 other men, what does that
show to us?
5. Tell us why you think that God is pleased with us when we love Jesus
enough to obey.
Please study the above references and then add your observations
and applications:
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Philippians 4: 6Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God. (CEV)
What Did Jesus Teach About Love?
God sent Jesus into the world as His ultimate message
of love.... Faith and hope surely do motivate us, but love motivates us
more dramatically and quickly than anything we know of. Because Christ
loved us, we love Him and the people around us. He came to His own people
and His own world, but they didn't receive Him. However He gives power
to those who do receive Him, the power to be children of God. He came to
make God known to us, so we would love Him as our Father.
It's not good to be a mere spectator and critic.
Jesus said, "From everyone who has been entrusted with much, much more
will be asked" and "to everyone who has, more will be given." This is for
our own good, for our own benefit, but we also benefit God when we are
productive. We glorify Him by our productivity. We help bring others into
His kingdom.
Jesus told His disciples, "Love each other as I
have loved you". (John 13:34 CEV)
Paul put top priority on love just as Jesus did:
"Love is kind and patient, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love
isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that
others do. Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil. Love is always
supportive, loyal, hopeful, and trusting. Love never fails...
For now there are faith, hope, and love. But of these three, the greatest
is love." (1 Corinthians 13:4-13 CEV)
(Modified from pages 186-190, chap ten, "The
Leadership Principles of Jesus")
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