NUGGETS. 

• The power of love is when it is experienced. 

• The cycle of love is incomplete if it is kept only to yourself. 

• As believers, we are called to experience God's love and commanded to love one another. 

• Loving others is not a suggestion but a command by God. 

• Lack of love is the root or mother of many other sins. 

1. LOVE IS A WAY OF THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE. 

• Love is about your commitment to think in a certain way about a person. 

• What you think about a person will determine your level of love towards them. 

• Loving God requires you to have the right thoughts about him. 

• You will never love God well if your thoughts about him are polluted or misinformed. 

• Your thoughts about other people must be right for your love for them to be strong. 

• Love will never flow from you towards other people if your thoughts towards them are polluted, tainted, or misinformed. 

• The goal of Satan is to get you to think of others in negative ways. 

4 Major ways Satan attacks our thoughts. 

- Through OFFENSE 

- Through SUSPICION. 

- Through PREJUDICE 

- Through JUDGMENT. 

• You cannot think wrongly about someone and love them well. 

2. LOVE IS A WAY OF ACTING TOWARDS PEOPLE. 

• It is easier to act your way into a feeling than to feel your way into an action. 

• The more you act in love towards people, the more you feel love towards them. 

• Love is about translating your right thinking about someone into the right actions. 

• It is possible to show love to someone even when you don't feel it.