Back To Basics: Simplifying Your Spiritual Life | Part 4 – Loving Perspectives and Practices!

Matthew 22:37-39 (NLT)

“You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Loving Others Always Involves – Loving !

• Loving others is an … challenge!

James 4:1 (MSG)

Where do you think … wars and quarrels come from? … They come because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves.

• Loving others is a … challenge!

Romans 12:18 (NIV)

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

• Loving others is a … ‘ challenge!

John 13:34,35 (NLT)

“I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other just as I have loved you, you should love each other. ³⁵ Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

Loving Others (As Jesus Loves Us) Always Involves –

Loving !

• Like Jesus, we are to lovingly others!

Romans 15:7 (NLT)
Accept each other just as Christ has accepted you …

• Like Jesus, we are to be lovingly to others!

Romans 5:8 (NLT)

God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Matthew 7:12 (MSG)

(Jesus says) “Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law … and this is what you get.”

• Like Jesus, we’re to be loving to others!