Summary: What Is Love?
📖 John 15:13 — “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
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I. 💔 What Love Is Not
1️⃣ 🐟 Fish Love — Selfish Love That Takes
Definition: Love that consumes, uses, or drains others for personal pleasure.
Example: “I love fish” — but you eat it. That’s not love; that’s consumption.
Principle: Selfish love takes; true love gives.
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:5 — Love is not self-seeking.
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2️⃣ 🍗 Chicken Love — Craving Without Covenant
Definition: Love reduced to desire, attraction, or partial affection.
Analogy: Sexual desire is like a campfire — safe and warm within God’s boundaries; like a wildfire when uncontrolled.
Truth: Partly love is not love.
Real Love: Honors body, soul, and spirit; recognizes God’s image in others.
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 — Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
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II. 💖 What Love Truly Is
3️⃣ 🍟 Second Fries — Love That Sacrifices
Definition: Giving the best to others, keeping less for yourself.
Analogy: Offering your friend the first fries — the best portion.
Essence: True love costs; it always involves giving.
Scripture: John 3:16 — God gave His Son.
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4️⃣ 💪 Love Is a Choice — Not a Feeling
Definition: Love is a conscious act of the will, not a passing emotion.
Example: Missionaries who give their lives, unseen and unrewarded.
Essence: Love chooses to bless, even enemies.
Scripture: Luke 6:27 — “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.”
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5️⃣ 🧸 Love Gives Value — Not Based on Worth, But Creating It
Definition: True love doesn’t find value; it creates value.
Analogy: A child’s old teddy bear — worthless to others, priceless to the child.
Theology: God loved us while we were still sinners — His love gave us worth.
Scripture: Romans 5:8 — Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
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III. 🌹 The Core Truth — The Way of Christlike Love
❌ Selfish Love ✅ True Love
👎Takes👍 Gives
👎Consumes 👍Builds up
👎Partial 👍Whole (body, soul, spirit)
👎Conditional 👍Unconditional
👎Convenient 👍Sacrificial
Summary Line:
Selfish love asks, “What can I take?”
True love asks, “What can I give?”
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🙏 Closing Reflection
🌿 Love is not fish love, not chicken love — but second-fries love.
💖 The kind that gives, serves, sacrifices, and redeems.
✝️ Because Jesus’ love for us made the worthless precious, the lost found, and the unlovable beloved.
