Need #8 – Loving Relationships

 Empowering Leadership  Small groups  Passionate Spirituality  Gifted Ministry  Inspired Worship  Needs Oriented Evangelism  Functional Structures  Loving Relationships

 1 Corinthians 3:3 – “For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

 1 Corinthians 6: Actually, then, it is already a defeat for you, that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that divisions exist among you…For there must also be factions among you…Therefore when you meet together it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper, for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.

 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all thing.

 John 13:34 – A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  What’s new in this?

 Mark 9: But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

 Matthew 5:43-46  Love your neighbor  Hate your enemy?  Love your enemy  Pray for persecutors  God blesses righteous and wicked  You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect

 John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

 Romans 12:10 – Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor….

 Romans 15:7 – Therefore accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.

 Galatians 5:13 – For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

 1 Thess. 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

 1 Peter 4:9-10 – Be hospitable to one another without complaint. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.