GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue

Love – Local and Faith Community

2 Peter 1:3-9Cornerstone Blue Bible, p. 857.

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Faith, goodness, knowledge, self-

control, perseverance, godliness,

mutual affection (brotherly love), love.

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Colossians 3:14

And over all these virtues, put on love,

which binds them all together in

perfect unity.

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Agape love denotes self-sacrificing

action on behalf of one-another. This

love flows from God himself who is

love and reaches the world.

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

The church now lives in constant

tension as it embodies the life of the

kingdom in the midst of nations where

idolatry reigns

(Michael W. Goheen – “A Light to the Nations)

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

We are shaped and fashioned by what

we love.

(Johann von Goethe)

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Unlovely things must be deeply loved

before they become loveable.

(G.K. Chesterton)

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still

sinners, Christ died for us.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that

whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 3:16

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.

And we ought to lay down our lives our brothers.

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

TO US / THROUGH US

“HEMEWE”

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Mark 11:17

Matthew 21:14

(Jesus clears the Temple)

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Do you see what I see?

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

Love won

another

GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue | Love – Local/Faith Community

May the Lord make your love increase

and overflow for each other and for

everyone else, just as ours does for

you.

(1 Thessalonians 3:12)