Extravagant Love by Mike Connell - HTML preview

Love your Neighbour (6 of 6)

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Love is incredibly practical. We've looked at spiritual dimensions of it, the need to experience God, to hear his voice, that’s the fuel for the fire, but encounters with God are always to lead us to mission. Love always has an outworking, or a practical expression. Let us not love i n word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

Okay, let's have a look in Matthe w, Chapter 22 and we've been sharing on Extravagant Love, talked about loving the Lord, l oving your neighbour as yourself. We want to look at loving your neighbour now, loving your neighbour, and re me mbe r the verse tha t we shared, Matthe w, Chapter 22 - should just about know it by heart now - what is the great commandment? Thou shall love the Lord your God, wi th all your hea rt, all your soul, all your mind, all your stre ngth. This is the first and great commandment, and the n the second is like it, you shall love your neighbour as yourself. So Jesus said then, all the law and the prophe ts are summarised in those two commands, in other words, the Bible is about love. It's about revealing the nature of God, and we did two or three sessions on loving God, God's love for us, and our love for Hi m in response. Then we talked ove r the last couple of weeks about loving yourself, about treating yourself as God treats you, placing value on y ourself, agreeing with what God says about you, listening to what God says about you, ope ning your life to receive God's love, and the n standing with boundaries around your life, so your life actually becomes whole.

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