1. TO LOVE OTHERS, YOU MUST FIRST EXPERIENCE GOD IN YOUR LIFE.

• Love is not just a mystical thing that just magically happens.

• Love comes and flows through people.

• You cannot love unless love is in you.

• Love gets in you when love gets in you.

• Salvation is about the inward transformation of your heart.

COMPONENTS OF SALVATION.

- HONEST ADMISSION of the NEED for God.

• You will never know God until you say I need God.

- HONESTLY admit your present SPIRITUAL condition.

- ACCEPT God's solution/ pathway.

• Salvation is a one-way experience.

- Begin to GROW in the understanding of your salvation.

2. LOVE MUST BE DEMONSTRATED AND PRIORTOZED.

• Our knowledge of love must transition from a concept to what is being practiced and prioritized.

• Don't just celebrate the love of God. Demonstrate it.

HOW TO PRIOTIZE AND PRACTICE LOVE.

- Devote TIME to God.

• You can't say you love God if you don't give him time.

- Devote TIME to people.

• You can't say you love people if you don't give time to them.

• In today's world, we are highly connected technologically but highly disconnected relationally.

• You can be physically present with someone, but relationally absent.

• If you don't build loving relationships now, you won't have them when it matters.

- Forgive QUICKLY.

• Don't choose to forgive whenever you get to it or eventually. Do it quickly!

- Apologize PROMPTLY & APPROPRIATELY.

• Apology is an indication that you value a relationship more than you being right.

- Learn to SPEAK the LOVE LANGUAGE of others.

- Learn to practice the other 5 things CONSISTENTLY.

• Love is a learned response, so learn how to express and respond in love.