This week’s sermon is the fifth of six messages in the Building Families discipleship series. Thus far, we have been given three relational values that are essential to building relationships: hope, trust and forgiveness. This week, Pastor John has given us the fourth relational value that binds them all: love.

The four main points of the sermon are:

1. Love serves (Mark 10:45)

- Love serves in the little things and big things, e.g. daily things like washing someone else’s dishes.

- Love serves without a response.

2. Love sacrifices (John 15:13)

- To let something go for the sake of another is central to God’s idea of love.

- Sacrifice shows the value of something. God sacrifices His Son for us to show us how much we mean to Him, how much we are worth.

- In family relationships, sacrificial love is key to the experience of happiness and fulfillment.

3. Love stands up (Luke 7:44-47)

- Love stands up for yourself, your loved ones, and others who can’t speak for or defend themselves.

- Sometimes the most loving thing to do for another is to call them on their bad behaviors and habits that are hurting themselves and others.

4. There are two barriers to love:

- Pride.

- Have not received God’s forgiveness.