Love: A More Excellent Way Our series on ‘Love – a more excellent way’ has us looking at another thing love is and is not – ‘Love thinks no evil but rejoices with the truth.’ See attached outline for your reference. KEY LEARNING POINTS 1. ‘Thinking evil’ means keeping a record of wrongs done to us. This is taking the command to forgive to a higher level of not even keeping record of the wrong Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way Our quarter series on Love- A more excellent way is getting more exciting. This Sunday, we shall be looking at Love as the greatest gift. See outline attached for your reference. Key Learning Points: 1. God’s gift of Himself to us through Christ’s redemption and the gift of the Holy Spirit as God abiding in and with us forever is the greatest gift God could ever give us. 2. God left Read more…
Love: A More Excellent Way We series on Love- A More Excellent Way continues this week. This time, we shall be looking at Love and Submission. See outline attached for your reference. Key Learning points: 1. Jesus calls us to a life of humility and submissions, where we must be willing to do lowly and sometimes even repulsive acts of service. 2. Loving others and submitting ourselves one to another will always be a distinguishing Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way We continue our study of Love- The Most Excellent Way. This time, we take a look at another thing Love is not and does not – does not dishonour others and not easily provoked. See attached outline for your reference. Key Learning Points: 1. Since love is seeking the good of the other person, rudeness, at its core, emanates from a lack of love for other people. And reveals an Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way Our study on Love, A most excellent way continues this Sunday. Having looked at what love is, we turn our attention to what love is not, starting with ‘Love is not boastful and proud. Key Learning Points: 1. Boasting and pride are self-focused, which is the direct opposite of what Christian love is. As such, boasting and pride cannot coexist with godly love. 2. As Christians, we should not Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way This week, our study on Love- A Most excellent way brings us to this tough command from our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. This is especially fitting considering the experiences of many among us, directly and or indirectly. Please see the outline attached for your perusal and advance preparation. Key Learning points: 1. Jesus’ command to love our enemies is wide-ranging. 2. The command to love one’s enemy is Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way As we continue our study on Love- A more excellent way of love, we come, this week, to the topic: Love is Selfless. See attached outline for your perusal. Key learnings 1. Generosity, which is the very opposite of selfishness, is a characteristic of true love, which seeks to give and not take for oneself. 2. Courtesy is also an expression of selflessness. Courteous people do not demand to be first Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way In continuation of our quarter series on Love: A More Excellent Way, we shall be looking at Love fulfilling the law. See attached outline for your reference. Key Learning points: 1. Love is enormously important to the Christian life because that is how we show that we are children of God. So, the ten commandments, and any other commandment there may be, are basically examples of what loving God Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way Attached is the outline for Sunday’s Bible study for your reference. The topic is ‘Love is patient and kind. Kindly review ahead of time to make our discussion richer and more beneficial. Key learning points are: It is impossible to practice agape without the cornerstone attributes of patience and kindness. Patience and kindness with one another can be intentionally cultivated in our hearts. We become motivated to practice patience when Read more…
Theme: Love: A More Excellent Way This Sunday is the opening Sunday of the quarter. Our quarter theme is Love: A More Excellent Way. And we start with a look at The Excellency of Love. Key Learnings Points are: 1. To love is a command, and so mandatory, whereas spiritual gifts are things we can aspire or desire and which one may or may not get the desired gift. 2. Unlike spiritual gifts, love is the Read more…