1. Love Insights into Grace, Image, Vision, and Eternity

2. 1. What is LOVE?  Love is a relationship Love

3. 1. What is LOVE?  It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20:35  Love is a relationship  Love is a giving (act) Love

4. 1. What is LOVE?  Love is a relationship  Love is a giving (act)  Love’s ingredients ( GIVE ):  G race– kindness, that’s freely given  I mage – God’s image = God’s nature of love  V ision – hope, view of great future  E ternity – time which never ends Love

5. 2. Who is perfect LOVE?  God is merciful! He is kind and patient, and his love never fails. God’s Nature  Nobody has seen God, but Jesus shows us who God is, and what God is like God’s Image  Jesus is perfect love, God’s one and only son dwelling among us full of grace and truthGod’s Beloved Love

6. 3. Where does perfect LOVE come from?  God gives perfect love through Jesus Christ for free, so we should receive it without hesitation Love When Jesus died on the cross, HE fulfilled perfect LOVE from God

7. 4. LOVE is in practice at International Home Love Jesus, Son of God, our savior Love people from the heart Hospitality shows LOVE Enabling & Encouraging each other demonstrates: “Love one another” Enabling & Encouraging each other demonstrates: “Love one another” Personal illustration & practice

8. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life (John 3:16) Love Perfect LOVE is freely given through Jesus through Jesus