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Spiritual Simplicity - Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, Part 2
How would you like to simplify your life and at the same time experience more love than you ever thought possible? Join Chip as he shares a time-tested method for loving more by doing less.
In a fallen world, our failures are often an attempt to obtain “good things” in a bad way.
- Seeking belonging leads to division.
- Seeking connection results in destructive relationships.
- Seeking security fuels greed.Seeking holiness can cause disunity.
- Seeking pleasure can harm others' faith.
- Summary: So many times our gravest failures are our attempts to “look for love in all the wrong places.
”Learning to love in “Real Time”
- Responding to Hurts:Truth: Love is patient and kind (1 Corinthians 13:4a).Practice: When hurt, love absorbs the blow and responds with kindness.
- Responding to Differences:Truth: Love does not envy or boast... (1 Corinthians 13:4b-5).Practice: Celebrate differences and refuse to compare (1 Corinthians 12:12-31).
- Responding to Failure:Truth: Love doesn't delight in evil but rejoices with truth. (1 Corinthians 13:6-8a).Practice: Love responds to failure with truth and grace by: Bearing all things, Believing all things: Hoping all things & Enduring all things
The Result: “LOVE never fails!”
The Application: Serving in Love: Romans 12:9-13
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