Intro:
This is the last week of a 10 week teaching helping us to connect meaningfully with people around us, and make a lifelong impact in our community by loving others! Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with an encouraging word for your day. As we complete this love project journey, thank you for joining us. Together we can make love a way of life, and positively change our world. I’m getting excited for our fall study called Authentic Living looking at all the one another’s in the Bible. Make sure to be a part of that great study! Today, here is an encouraging word about making love a way of life for today as we conclude this series this week.
Monday
When we started maybe you were thinking, how can you talk about love for ten weeks? Well, as believers, it should be a subject that we continually work on. It is a foundational truth that can always be built upon, and a great place to continue putting mortar around the bricks of our life’s foundation. It definitely is not a superficial subject. We need to hear about it on a regular basis, so that we continue growing in love. We should all pass the loving other’s test! It lasts a lifetime. I hope you have discovered that love has to be more than something we feel, it is something we do. Love is a verb. It requires action! Love is an action word, and it is a choice we make on a daily basis. During this last week of the Love Project, not only will we hear some concluding ideas, but as a Christians, we put love into action. Because we love, we serve. In the final chapters of Making Love a Way of Life, by Gary Chapman, he gives us three questions to think about in regard to being better at loving in our relationships. It actually is based on something he did in his own home, and because of the changes that happened in his life, he asks us to ask the same questions. I bet you want to know what they are!!! Ok, I’ll tell you!
1) What can I do for you today?
2) How can I make your life easier?
3) How can I be a better spouse, friend, parent, daughter, son, leader,(you fill in the blank) today?
The answers you receive when you ask these three questions can alter your destiny. First of all, it is a demonstration of selflessness, because you are thinking more of others than you are of your own desires and needs. Then you are asking how can you serve them in a better way. And then finally you ask for ideas to make improvements in yourself to be a more loving person. It takes all of the characteristics of love in action to be able to do that! Think about it, you are being kind, patient, forgiving, courteous, generous, honest and most of all acting in humility. You are truly setting aside your desires to better your relationship. That’s love in action, and love as a way of life.
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