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Ep. 1 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life - Part 1 (1 John 4:7a)
Ep. 1 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life - Part 1 (1 John 4:7a)
Episode 1 - The single most important thing you can do to improve the quality of your life…Love might not be what you think.
Highlights and Notes: Here’s a couple of questions to start with: What do you think is the one thing that you could do to create greater happiness/satisfaction in your life? What is the one thing you could do to make a more significant impact for good in the world? … My own answer to these questions wouldn’t be complicated or hard to understand…it wouldn’t require attendance at a seminar or reading the latest array of self-help books and it wouldn’t require a prescription from your doctor. My answer is simple…it was stated most succinctly by a man named John who was a first century follower of Jesus. In his first letter, found in the New Testament, he writes these words (chapter 4:7).
“Dear friends, let us love one another.”
So if I had one thing to say to you about improving the quality of life for yourself and for this world. If this is the only message you were ever to get from me. If this were to be my last words to my family and friends, this is what I would want you to hear, “Dear friends, let us love one another.”
This is nothing novel or innovative. We’ve heard it a million times. Could it be that, all along, this simple approach to a better life has been hiding in plain sight? I think so.
The breakdown here isn’t the concept - it’s the implementation. We don’t really understand what love is and…we don’t do it!
What Is Love? “Love is doing what’s best for someone else, whatever it takes.” (Pastor Tyler McKenzie - Northeast Christian Church in Louisville, KT) Love is NOT about how we feel. It’s not an emotion it’s a commitment to act in the best interests of others.
How Does This Kind of Love Change Things? There are two ways. First, something changes inside of me. A decision to love can lead to a feeling of love. We can act our way into the right feelings. In fact, many times it is much easier to act our way into the right feelings than it is to feel our way into the right actions.
So, ask yourself this question. If I really did feel love for this other person what would I say? Then say it. If I really did feel love for this other person, what would I do? Then do it! The cumulative effect of making this kind of choice over time in your family, neighborhood, church, place of work…will lead to a transformation of your own heart. This is part of the magic of doing what is best for another person, whatever it takes. Something does begin to change inside of us. It’s a simple approach to a better life.
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Ep. 1 | A Simple Approach to a Better Life - Part 1 (1 John 4:7a)
Episode 1 - The single most important thing you can do to improve the quality of your life…Love might not be what you think.
Highlights and Notes: Here’s a couple of questions to start with: What do you think is the one thing that you could do to create greater happiness/satisfaction in your life? What is the one thing you could do to make a more significant impact for good in the world? … My own answer to these questions wouldn’t be complicated or hard to understand…it wouldn’t require attendance at a seminar or reading the latest array of self-help books and it wouldn’t require a prescription from your doctor. My answer is simple…it was stated most succinctly by a man named John who was a first century follower of Jesus. In his first letter, found in the New Testament, he writes these words (chapter 4:7).
“Dear friends, let us love one another.”
So if I had one thing to say to you about improving the quality of life for yourself and for this world. If this is the only message you were ever to get from me. If this were to be my last words to my family and friends, this is what I would want you to hear, “Dear friends, let us love one another.”
This is nothing novel or innovative. We’ve heard it a million times. Could it be that, all along, this simple approach to a better life has been hiding in plain sight? I think so.
The breakdown here isn’t the concept - it’s the implementation. We don’t really understand what love is and…we don’t do it!
What Is Love? “Love is doing what’s best for someone else, whatever it takes.” (Pastor Tyler McKenzie - Northeast Christian Church in Louisville, KT) Love is NOT about how we feel. It’s not an emotion it’s a commitment to act in the best interests of others.
How Does This Kind of Love Change Things? There are two ways. First, something changes inside of me. A decision to love can lead to a feeling of love. We can act our way into the right feelings. In fact, many times it is much easier to act our way into the right feelings than it is to feel our way into the right actions.
So, ask yourself this question. If I really did feel love for this other person what would I say? Then say it. If I really did feel love for this other person, what would I do? Then do it! The cumulative effect of making this kind of choice over time in your family, neighborhood, church, place of work…will lead to a transformation of your own heart. This is part of the magic of doing what is best for another person, whatever it takes. Something does begin to change inside of us. It’s a simple approach to a better life.