Extreme Love The GREATEST COMMANDMENT: Loving God, Loving Others Mark 12:2930

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Extreme Love The GREATEST
COMMANDMENT Loving God,
Loving Others Mark 1229-30
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• Top Ten Things You Never Hear in Church
• 10. Hey! Its my turn to sit in the front pew.
• 9. I was so enthralled that I never noticed
  your sermon went 25 minutes over.
• 8. Personally, I find witnessing much more
  enjoyable than golf.
• 7. Ive decided to give our church the 500 a
  month I use to send to TV evangelists.

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• 6. Volunteer to be the permanent teacher for the
  junior high Sunday school class.
• 5. Forget the denominational minimum salary,
  Lets pay our pastor so he can live like we do.
• 4. I love it when we sing hymns and choruses
  Ive never heard before!
• 3. Since were all here, lets start the
  service early.

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• 2. Pastor, wed like to send you to this Bible
  seminar in the Bahamas.
• 1. Nothing inspires me and strengthens my
  commitment like an annual stewardship campaign!

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• Loving others is not as hard as we make it out to
  be sometimes.
• 1 Thessalonians 515 See to it that no one
  repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue
  what is good for one another and for all.

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• 1 Thess. 511 - Therefore encourage one another
  and build each other up as you are already doing.
  
• Loving others is simply acting toward them as
  Christ would act toward them.

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• Loving Others grows out of our love for God!
• Gods love in us empowers us to love others
• 1 John 47-8 Dear friends, let us love one
  another, because love is from God, and everyone
  who loves has been born of God and knows God. The
  one who does not love does not know God, because
  God is love.

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• Why are we to love?
• 1 John 419 We love because He first loved
  us.

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• 1 Corinthians 134-8 Love is patient
  love is kind. Love does not envy is not
  boastful is not conceited does not act
  improperly is not selfish is not provoked
  does not keep a record of wrongs finds no joy
  in unrighteousness, but rejoices
  in the truth bears all things,
  believes all things, hopes all things,
  endures all things. Love never ends.