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God is Love!
Dennis R Wiles
FBC Arlington
October 18, 2020
FALL 2020
SEPTEMBER 6 – OCTOBER 31, 2020
The Love of God: A Study of 1 John
God is Love!
1 John 4:7-21
REGATHERING AND RENEWING
What our world needs now is . . . Love!
Today, it is love alone that is widely assumed to be what life is all about; our source of meaning and that which gives our lives purpose, joy and hope even in the face of stresses such as financial, political and job insecurity, terrorism, family breakdown as well as being faced with our own mortality through illness and bereavement . . . love is the new god of our age: it is now the West’s only generally accepted religion. The Bible’s claim that “God is love” has been subverted to become “Love is God.”
-Patrick Mitchel, The Message of Love
God is Love!
1 John 4:7-21
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
GOD IS LOVE!
The claim that God is love is the radical claim of Christianity. It is radical not simply in the sense of being a shocking or explosive claim, but in the sense of lying at the root (Latin radix) of the Christian faith. In some sense, the entirety of things that Christians believe flows from this claim. It is a belief that distinguished Christianity from much ancient imagining of the divine, whether in the mythological form of tales of the gods or the philosophical form of reflection on the source of universal order . . . we find nothing quite as audacious as the claim that God is love.
- Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, The Love That is God
GOD’S LOVE IS PERSONAL!
GOD’S LOVE IS PURPOSEFUL!
GOD’S LOVE IS PERFECT!
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
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By Dennis R Wiles
FBC Arlington
October 18, 2020
FALL 2020
SEPTEMBER 6 – OCTOBER 31, 2020
The Love of God: A Study of 1 John
God is Love!
1 John 4:7-21
REGATHERING AND RENEWING
What our world needs now is . . . Love!
Today, it is love alone that is widely assumed to be what life is all about; our source of meaning and that which gives our lives purpose, joy and hope even in the face of stresses such as financial, political and job insecurity, terrorism, family breakdown as well as being faced with our own mortality through illness and bereavement . . . love is the new god of our age: it is now the West’s only generally accepted religion. The Bible’s claim that “God is love” has been subverted to become “Love is God.”
-Patrick Mitchel, The Message of Love
God is Love!
1 John 4:7-21
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
GOD IS LOVE!
The claim that God is love is the radical claim of Christianity. It is radical not simply in the sense of being a shocking or explosive claim, but in the sense of lying at the root (Latin radix) of the Christian faith. In some sense, the entirety of things that Christians believe flows from this claim. It is a belief that distinguished Christianity from much ancient imagining of the divine, whether in the mythological form of tales of the gods or the philosophical form of reflection on the source of universal order . . . we find nothing quite as audacious as the claim that God is love.
- Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, The Love That is God
GOD’S LOVE IS PERSONAL!
GOD’S LOVE IS PURPOSEFUL!
GOD’S LOVE IS PERFECT!
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.