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Love Life: The Missing Love | Filmore Bouldes
The Missing Love
In week one of our Love Life series, The Missing Love, we confront a question most of us feel but rarely name: Why does love fade—even when we try hard? This message challenges the assumption that relational breakdowns happen simply because something is wrong with them or us, and instead invites us to consider a deeper truth—we often fall out of love with God before we fall out of love with people.
Rooted in 1 John 4:7–19, this sermon reveals that human love was always meant to flow from God's love. Love doesn't begin with chemistry, effort, or compatibility—it begins with God. When our connection to Him weakens, love doesn't disappear; it distorts, strains, and collapses under pressure.
Through three biblical stories—Adam & Eve, Abraham & Sarah, and Jacob & Rachel—we see a clear pattern: Love breaks when God's love is distrusted. Love becomes destructive when God feels slow. Love collapses when relationships become ultimate.
This message reminds us that Christianity doesn't downgrade romance—it explains why it matters so deeply and why it breaks so easily. Romantic love is a gift, but it was never meant to be the source. When we ask people to give us what only God can provide, relationships buckle under impossible expectations.
If you're single, dating, married, discouraged, waiting, or carrying disappointment in relationships, this sermon invites you to stop striving to love better and instead return to receiving God's love first. Because when love dries up horizontally, it's often because it's been disconnected vertically.
Scripture References: 1 John 4:7–19 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 3:1–10 Genesis 16 Genesis 29–30 Matthew 10:8
Keywords: Onechurch, Filmore Bouldes, Love Life series, The Missing Love sermon, God's love and relationships, Christian dating sermon, marriage sermon, why love fades, 1 John 4 sermon, biblical view of love, relationships and faith, God's love sermon
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By Filmore BouldesThe Missing Love
In week one of our Love Life series, The Missing Love, we confront a question most of us feel but rarely name: Why does love fade—even when we try hard? This message challenges the assumption that relational breakdowns happen simply because something is wrong with them or us, and instead invites us to consider a deeper truth—we often fall out of love with God before we fall out of love with people.
Rooted in 1 John 4:7–19, this sermon reveals that human love was always meant to flow from God's love. Love doesn't begin with chemistry, effort, or compatibility—it begins with God. When our connection to Him weakens, love doesn't disappear; it distorts, strains, and collapses under pressure.
Through three biblical stories—Adam & Eve, Abraham & Sarah, and Jacob & Rachel—we see a clear pattern: Love breaks when God's love is distrusted. Love becomes destructive when God feels slow. Love collapses when relationships become ultimate.
This message reminds us that Christianity doesn't downgrade romance—it explains why it matters so deeply and why it breaks so easily. Romantic love is a gift, but it was never meant to be the source. When we ask people to give us what only God can provide, relationships buckle under impossible expectations.
If you're single, dating, married, discouraged, waiting, or carrying disappointment in relationships, this sermon invites you to stop striving to love better and instead return to receiving God's love first. Because when love dries up horizontally, it's often because it's been disconnected vertically.
Scripture References: 1 John 4:7–19 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 3:1–10 Genesis 16 Genesis 29–30 Matthew 10:8
Keywords: Onechurch, Filmore Bouldes, Love Life series, The Missing Love sermon, God's love and relationships, Christian dating sermon, marriage sermon, why love fades, 1 John 4 sermon, biblical view of love, relationships and faith, God's love sermon
Join Us This Season Plan a Visit (Seattle, WA) → https://www.onechurchnw.co/visit
Next Steps → https://www.onechurchnw.co/pathway Give → https://www.onechurchnw.co/give
Follow Along Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/onechurchnw TikTok → https://www.tiktok.com/@onechurchnw