GLORY: Illuminating Life with God's Virtue

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• Love Local and Faith Community
• 2 Peter 13-9
• Cornerstone Blue Bible, p. 857.

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Faith, goodness, knowledge, self-control,
perseverance, godliness, mutual affection
(brotherly love), love.
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Colossians 314 And over all these virtues, put
on love, which binds them all together in perfect
unity.
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Agape love denotes self-sacrificing action on
behalf of one-another. This love flows from God
himself who is love and reaches the world.
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The church now lives in constant tension as it
embodies the life of the kingdom in the midst of
nations where idolatry reigns (Michael W. Goheen
A Light to the Nations)
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
(Johann von Goethe)
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Unlovely things must be deeply loved before they
become loveable. (G.K. Chesterton)
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Romans 58 But God demonstrates His own love for
us in this While we were still sinners, Christ
died for us. John 316 For God so loved the
world that He gave His one and only Son, that
whoever believes in Him should not perish but
have eternal life. 1 John 316 This is how we
know what love is Jesus Christ laid down His
life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives
our brothers.
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TO US / THROUGH US HEMEWE
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Mark 1117 Matthew 2114 (Jesus clears the Temple)
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Do you see what I see?
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Love won another
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May the Lord make your love increase and overflow
for each other and for everyone else, just as
ours does for you. (1 Thessalonians 312)