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Love and Marriage

2. Different Kinds of “Love”
Eros – Sensual Love

3. Different Kinds of “Love”
Eros – Sensual Love
Phileos – Brotherly Love

4. Different Kinds of “Love”
Eros – Sensual Love
Phileos – Brotherly Love
Storgos – Family Love

5. { In Marriage Eros – Sexual Love Phileos – Friendship
Storgos – Development of Family {

6. God is the source of love

7. Different Kinds of “Love”
Eros – Sensual Love
Phileos – Brotherly Love
Storgos – Family Love
Agape – A Love That Gives

8. Agape Love is Different Because:
Not stimulated by self-gratification
Based on obedience to God

9. Agape Love is Different Because:
Not stimulated by self-gratification
It begins with an act of will
Love based on a decision not a feeling

10. Agape Love is Different Because:
Not stimulated by self-gratification
It begins with an act of will
It pleases both God and Man
It is channeled by us from God to others

11. Agape love lasts a lifetime

12. Agape is: Patient – willing to bear with other’s sins
Kind – willing to serve
Not Jealous – happy for another’s good
Not Proud – does not overstate one’s worth

13. Agape is: Not Rude – acts politely Not Selfish – acts considerately
Not Sensitive – not easily offended
Not Vengeful – doesn’t keep score

14. Agape: Loves Justice – wants good to win Forgives – covers mistakes
Trusts – gives the benefit of the doubt
Hopes – hopes for the best
Longsuffering – ready and willing to endure

15. How do we Keep Love Alive?
Love your spouse as a response to God’s command
 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. - I John 4:16

16. How do we Keep Love Alive?
Love your spouse as a response to God’s command
Practice Agape Love
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, - Ephesians 3:20

17. “Love never fails” - I Corinthians 13:8