What is something that you love? (video games, person, food)

Love is often hard to define.  Why do you think it is hard to define love?

How would you define love?

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I pray that you, … may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  -Ephesians 3:17-19

 

Why do you think it is hard for us to understand the love of Christ?

How is God’s love for us, different than the way we often think of love?

How is God’s love  wide and long and high and deep?”

 

for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:7-8

 Is there anyone in your life you would be willing to die for?  Who and why?

Jesus chose to suffer on the cross for us even though we certainly don’t deserve it.  What should be our response?

How does knowing that God loves you change your life?

 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. -Romans 8:35-37

 Why is it important that we remember the love of Christ when we face trouble and hardship?

How does your perspective change on life because of God’s love?