What is Love?

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Love is demonstrated to others by…

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What is Love?

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Mark 12:28–34

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__________ –Love demonstrates a willingness to serve and to change in order to meet the needs of others.

Culture has reduced the meaning of love to an immature and misinformed understanding. We have created ____________________________ _______________ of what love is and diluted it of its power.

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_______________ –Love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.

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____________________ –Love protects, shields, guards, covers, conceals, and safeguards others.

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_____________________ –Love never quits, it bears trials, perseveres and never gives up.

Love begins by loving God with… •

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All your _____________ and __________­—the seat of the thoughts, passions, desires, and appetite.

All your __________ and ____________________ —with the intensity of our being.

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We are commanded to love God not simply __________ our whole heart, but __________ our heart.



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We are not commanded to feel a feeling but rather express it through action.



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Our love for God flows from our knowledge of who He is.

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