What does the “loving others way” look like?

I. Seek to be a “quick to

” type of person (Rom. 12:10; James 2:1-8).
Wanting the best for a person, protecting them, promoting them, encouraging them, doing all you can to advance them toward God and toward health and toward what God would have for them.

II. Seek to be a “

on another” type of person (Ephesians 4:2).
It’s okay to not know what to do or how to help. Do you realize that 90% is just showing up in life; just reaching out, just extending a hand, a greeting, a smile, and a listening ear?

III. Seek to be a “

rather than a user of others” type of person (Gal. 5:13).
We are to use the freedom we have as Christians to choose to be servers of others, rather than users of others to serve ourselves.

How can these qualities characterize our love for others?

is the source for a “loving others” way of life (1 John 4:7).
The ability to truly love others, especially the difficult “others” in our lives, is found in God.

Application

Who do you need God’s help to love?
Finish this sentence, “God, if I am going to be able to love_____, I will need you to fill me and empower me.”

What do you need God’s empowerment to lovingly do?
Finish this sentence: “God, to value, bear with or serve

, I am dependent on you to supply the love I need.

The most important thing we can do is become lovers of God and lovers of people and a

advances you in both.

Practice the “loving others” way of life by

in a Foothills Ministry.