“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. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us and his love is made complete in us. This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as the world’s Savior. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God — God remains in him and he in God. And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.” —1 John 4:7-16

Examining the Text
1. Read through the passage in two different translations.
2. As you heard the Scripture, what stood out to you?
3. Are there any questions that you have about the text to discuss?
4. Are there other portions of Scripture this passages brings to mind?

Sermon Review and Application
1. How does it feel to see yourself as the “beloved” of God?
2. Does it seem strange to think that all people are God’s “beloved?”
3. How has God been the source of your ability to show love?
4. How do you see God’s love revealed to you in Jesus Christ?
5. Is it strange that our love towards others can reveal God? Why?
6. How can we pray for one another to see everyone as “beloved?”