Culturally – recap

• Love is feeling• Emotion, high, cloud 9, in love …etc.

Culturally – recap

• Love is sex• Channel News Asia

“Media surveys have shown teenagers in Thailand pick Valentine's Day as the perfect day to lose their virginity”

Culturally – recap

• Love is sex• Cambodian Valentine's survey raises concerns

over rape and sexual violence

“Survey finds 47.4% of young men in capital Phnom Penh willing to force their partner into having sex this Valentine's Day (the guardian)”

Culturally – recap

• Love is self-gratification • Self-centered. Whatever that makes me feel good.

Ephesians 5: 1-5Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5: 1-5Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

How does love looks like? What is the way of love?

A Catholic woman and her protestant husband laid to rest in Holland, 1888.

“I have to be strong for my siblings. I am their mother and father. My stomach hurts often for the pain they feel. I just do my best to create a world in this one room where they can play and feel happy.” —Abdi, age 17

Kamara spend 12 hours a day caring for the almost extinction black rhinos

A husband who captured the wife journey with cancer in pictures

Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm is reunited with his family after being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war.

Dr. Religa monitors his patient's vitals after a 23 hour long heart transplant surgery. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

Clara Gantt is reunited with her husband's body after more than 60 years. Sergeant Joseph Grantt went missing during the Korean war.

China earthquake rescue workers found the most incredible expression of love - a mum protecting her child.

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Internally

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Internally • Division, disunity

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Internally • Division, disunity • Immorality

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Internally • Division, disunity • Immorality • Abuse of gifts

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Internally • Division, disunity • Immorality • Abuse of gifts • Self-centeredness

City of Corinth & church• Melting pot of culture, commercial center, values …etc.• Externally• Popular for its commercial trades • Popular for its idolatry and immoral activities

• Internally • Division, disunity • Immorality • Abuse of gifts • Self-centeredness• Pride ….etc.

Conclusion: LOVE was the missing ingredient

LOVE RIGHT, LIVE RIGHT

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous 2.Parading itself / boastful

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous 2.Parading itself / boastful 3.Puffed up / proud

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous 2.Parading itself / boastful 3.Puffed up / proud 4.Behaving rudely / dishonor others

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous 2.Parading itself / boastful 3.Puffed up / proud 4.Behaving rudely / dishonor others 5.Seeking its own

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous 2.Parading itself / boastful 3.Puffed up / proud 4.Behaving rudely / dishonor others 5.Seeking its own 6.Provoking / easily angered

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT 1.Envy / jealous 2.Parading itself / boastful 3.Puffed up / proud 4.Behaving rudely / dishonor others 5.Seeking its own 6.Provoking / easily angered 7.Thinking of evil / keeps no record of wrong

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 8 things What love IS NOT •Envy / jealous •Parading itself / boastful •Puffed up / proud •Behaving rudely / dishonor others •Seeking its own •Provoking / easily angered •Thinking of evil / keeps no record of wrong•Rejoicing in sin / delight in evil

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT 1 John 4: 7-10Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT Psalm 36:7O Lord, how precious is your love. My God, the children of the earth find refuge in the shelter of your wings.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT Psalm 40:11Your merciful love and your truth will always guard me.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT Psalm 13:5But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT Psalm 18:18-19The Lord came to my support. He set me free in the open,

and rescued me, because He loves me.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT Psalm 63:3Because your love is better than life,my lips will glorify you.

What LOVE is; What LOVE is NOT Romans 8:35, 37-39Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?....No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else is all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.