God is Love
Sunday, February 5, 2012 | Print Article Matthew 9:9-13
Week of February 5, 2012
1) Who are you?
2) False Story
a) Conditional Love
b) Performance Based Acceptance
3) True Story
a) Unconditional Acceptance
b) What Jesus Did (Matthew 9:9-13)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
- John 3:16-17
c) The Prodigal Father (Luke 15:11-32)
d) God is Love (1 John 4:7-21)
4) Soul Training: Praying the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
God is patient, God is kind. God does not envy, God does not boast, God is not proud. God is not rude, God is not self-seeking, God is not easily angered, God keeps no record of wrongs. God does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. God always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. God never fails.
- adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
