What Does It Mean To Live as a Christian?
His Greatest Commandment: How to Be Known for Love Like Jesus Was
Day 8
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We are closing out our final day together, and it’s our prayer that your life is already beginning to reflect an effervescent walk with Jesus. As we open today, we want to ask you a single question: what comes to mind when you think about loving your neighbor?
Is it extending common courtesy to someone on the elevator up to your floor? Is it serving those in need? Maybe it is offering grace to someone who has wronged you time and time again?
What does it look like to love one another? And why was it imperative that Jesus left us with that command? That is the question we are answering today.
Let’s get started.
Summary
Do you know how God has loved you? Look at what Scripture tells us—
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
God loved you with more love than anyone on earth could ever give, multiplied beyond measure. He saw our need and moved toward us before we could do anything for Him. He gave sacrificially because He loved us that much.
And now Jesus says: show that kind of love to one another. Why? Because this is how the world will know we belong to Him—if we love one another.
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.
John 13:34-35
The word for love here is agape, the same word used in John 3:16: “For God so loved the world…” Agape implies preferring others and prioritizing their needs over one’s own.
This is radically different from how the world teaches us to live. Our culture tells us to put ourselves first, to fight to win, to prove our worth, but Jesus calls us to another way.
We prefer each other.
We speak with grace.
We pray for one another.
We choose peace over division.
We talk to each other, not about each other.
This doesn’t mean that we sacrifice truth or hide our convictions. It means that we choose to love first, forgive quickly, and carry each other’s burdens. When we do, the world sees something different. They see a people marked by the love of Christ.
So, what does it mean to live as a Christian, really?
It means to be Christlike—to live your daily life like a little Christ.
It means to be in love with God, and to let that love reorder your entire life.
It means to extend grace—radical, wild, unworldly grace.
It means to shine light—to be a bright source of His love in a dark world.
It means to generously care— to go above and beyond the call of duty to take care of others.
It means to proclaim good news—to let the Gospel be our loudest response.
It means to make disciples—to let our story of grace lead others closer to Him.
It means to love another.
We want to leave you with these words from Paul’s letter from to the church at Colossae—
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
What's next?
When you hear Jesus’ command to “love one another,” what comes to mind first? Why?
Romans 5:8 says God loved us while we were still sinners. How does that truth shape the way you treat others?
In your daily life, what would it look like to “prefer others” over yourself?
Which part of “loving one another” feels most challenging to you?
Out of the list in the summary (grace, light, care, good news, discipleship, love), which one do you want to grow in most right now?
