God is Love Christ is the Love Letter of the Most High That Love is written on our hearts as a covenant.

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God is Love Christ is the Love Letter of the Most High That Love is written on our hearts as a covenant

Letters of Recommendation

Letters of Authority

Diplomats

NIV Living the Letter 2 Corinthians 3:3-6 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God.

NIV Living the Letter 2 Corinthians 3:3-6 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Statement: A Christian is the world’s Bible and Representation of the Love letter from God

A Follower of Christ Does Not need to write a letter, but live out the Letter of God’s Love

Reveal the material invested in them

Legible lives expressed in community service

Indented behavior practiced

Spaced attitudes exemplified

Don’t paraphrase the Letter, You are NOT the Author

They are Christ Credentials

Christ Styled to Live

Christ Fonted

Have Confidence in the Words that Were Written by the Author? V 4-6

A letter of Hope in Brokenness

A letter of Strength Each Day

A Letter of Healing of Relationship with God

CHALLENGE Live a Life That Represents Our Relationship to God

CHALLENGE Live a Life That Represents the Love of God

CHALLENGE Live a Life That Draws Others Toward the Love of God