Love, Love, Love, Love
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🧊🔨 Ice Breaker
What are Daniel and Eugenia's love languages for both giving and receiving love?
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5 Love Languages
Words of Affirmation
Acts of Service
Receiving Gifts
Quality Time
Physical Touch
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4 Biblical Expressions of Love
Philia (φιλία)
Brotherly friendship between two friends Daniel and Eugenia, as they spend Monday nights playing basketball together
Eros (ἔρως)
Romantic love between Daniel and Eugenia as we celebrate tonight as they are united in marriage
Storge (στοργή)
Familial love shared among family members: Daniel, Justin, Jannie, Diane, Joshua, and Eugenia, Wilson, Jackie, Marco, and Mackenzie
Agape (ἀγάπη)
The unconditional, selfless, sacrificial love of God. The love Daniel and Eugenia share for everyone here tonight is a reflection of God's unconditional love for them first.
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📖 1 John 4:10-12, 19
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. … We love because he first loved us.
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💭 Some Insight
- Love didn't begin with us, it began with God
- The greatest demonstration of God's love is that, while we were still sinners, God sent His one and only son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Through believing in Jesus, we can receive forgiveness, new life, and the hope of eternal life with God.
- The 4 biblical expressions of love are woven in Daniel and Eugenia's love story, from friendship, to romance, to family. But above all, their love points to God's Agape unconditional and sacrificial love. "We love because He first loved us."
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🗣️ Discussion (pick either or)
- When you hear that God loves you unconditionally and sent Jesus to die for you, what thoughts, feelings, or questions come to mind?
- What is one way someone has shown you unconditional love? How did it impact you?
