1. Love God, Love People

2. How does love boom?

3. What happens when it busts?

4. God is…?

5. God is love…

6. Love= agape- Commitment independent of emotion.

7. Love= agape- Commitment to seek what is best for the other person, regardless of whether they deserve it. Even if it means sacrifice

8. Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.

9. Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Dear friends- loved ones

10. Religion= do it because I said so! The Faith= I love you And want what's best for you

11. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

12. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

13. Love is not words But actions Serving Others-centered Sacrificing

14. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Undeserved… And it cost everything

15. What is deserved is never the issue What is needed…that's the issue

16. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. "I love him when he's loveable" "I love her when she acts right"

17. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. God's love for me forms the basis For my love for others

18. BToL: The blessings I've received Were never meant to terminate on me But to flow through me to the people God has placed in my life

19. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us - 1 John 4:7-12 Giving love is how we experience God's presence and love in our own lives AND- in our relationships

20. How does love boom? Invite God in: - My own life - My relationships by loving others like God loves me

21. God's love gives us the power to love others God's love gives us the foundation for good relationships

22. Covenant Relationships "I'll be here. I'll love you." No.Matter.What

23. Marriage is a picture of Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5)

24. What happens when love busts?

25. What happens when love busts? We act like Jesus… We keep (or begin) loving and serving According to their needs

26. Have I received God's love?

27. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. What does the evidence say?