Love One Another

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Day 8

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You have made it to the final day in this track, and we are so excited to jump into the last point that Louie Giglio passionately teaches. The Church will be known by her love, so we have the honor of loving each other.

Pray as you move forward on this last day and ask God to show you where you can expand and see others as Christ sees you.

Summary

On our final day together, we are going to explore one of the most important things we do is to love one another. Jesus gives this command in John 13:34.

Do you know how God has loved you? He has always loved you more. He loved you before you loved Him. He showed His love by dying for us while we were still sinners. See Romans 5:8. You matter more than the lilies and the sparrows. He sees everything. See Matthew 6:25-34. This is just the tip of the iceberg of how much He loves us.

Jesus takes it even further in the next verse and says that the Church will be known by our love. The word for love that is used there is "agape", which is a special kind of love.

The idea behind it is to prefer the other. This is incredibly counter cultural-to prefer others as better than yourself. See Philippians 2:3. But while you are preferring others they are preferring you. If you are united on the Gospel, then the other disagreements you have can be handled with grace. You talk to someone, not about someone. You talk with someone, not post about them. It's maintaining you're lane and living like a Christian. Go to them in private and pray for them a long time before you criticize them because you don't want us to look like a mess to the world.

Do everything in your power to solve the disagreement in peace and privacy. When it comes to public discourse, Christians need to stay out of the comment section. It doesn't change anyone's mind to throw bombs back and forth. That brings no one to reconciliation so why get in it? Focus on loving each other, not the world, and this is how the world will know of the Agape House, the Church. A place where every need is met and no one has a lack. When you are part of that community, you are part of paying mortgages, medical bills, car issues, and other bills. It's the house of love. And those are just the material needs, there's even more community, relationship, and spiritual needs that we get to grow in.

What's next?

What comes to your mind first when you think about love? Louie broke down the Greek word "agape" for us. How is the definition of that word different from what the world thinks true love is?

One of the things that the world uses against the Church is that there is infighting between Christians, so if we can't get along with each other, how is that remotely attractive to the world? We will always stand firmly on the Word of God and make our stands and conversations based on grace and truth, but we do it in that exact way...grace and truth. Treating people within the Church like that will speak volumes to the world. Is there anyone you need to go to and ask for forgiveness for speaking about them behind their back or disparaging them publicly?

Think through practical ways you can love the people at your church by preferring them over yourself. Not that you don't take care of your own needs or overextend in an unhealthy way, but as both people prefer each other, all needs are going to be met.

Scripture References

20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”

27He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

11For the

Lord

God is a sun and shield;

the

Lord

bestows favor and honor;

no good thing does he withhold

from those whose walk is blameless.

14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

“You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,

13for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

14Do everything without grumbling or arguing,

15so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky

16as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.

6For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.

9“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

16For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.

He said to them,

“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

18Then Jesus came to them and said,

“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Louie Giglio

Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.