"We are inevitably shaped by the things we love." - Pastor Nathan
Episode Summary:
How can we define love? This week, JB and Pastor Nathan discuss the biblical meaning of love and all the different ways the Bible frames love for us so we know how God loves, and how we can embody that love and live in his image.
In today's episode:
- We were created both to love, and to be loved.
- How we can follow Jesus' lead and learn to love.
- The Biblical definition of love.
- Types of love.
- How loving in God's image can shape our lives and our priorities.
- A deep look at "God is love." (1 John 4:16)
About Pastor Nathan:
Nathan was born and raised in St. Louis and after spending time studying and working in Nashville, he is happy to be back in St. Louis with his wife, Anna Kate, son Lewis and their two dogs Luna and Josie. While growing up in St. Louis, God began to develop in Nathan a desire to see healing and justice in the midst of rampant inequity and division. He has the honor right now of being a pastor at Woke Bridge Community Church in Ferguson Missouri.
Weekly Scripture(s):
- 1 Corinthians 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. (2) If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. (3) If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. (4) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (5) It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. (6) Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. (7) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (8) Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. (9) For we know in part and we prophesy in part, (10) but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. (11) When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. (12) For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. (13) And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
- John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
- John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. (35) By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
- Mark 12:28-31
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