VF: Love/Loving Others

Review and discuss with parents.

Love (Others)

Prompt:

Who is easy to love? Who is hard to love?

• God asks us to love everyone 

• 1 John 4:20 “If a may say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother who he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.”

Jesus Tells Us How To Love 

• Matthew 22:39 “ Love your neighbor as yourself.” 

• 1. Our “neighbor” is anyone around us. 
• 2. We love others the way we want to be treated. 

What Love Looks Like 

• 1 Corinthians 13:4 “Love is patient. Love is kind…”

• 1. Love is being patient when waiting is hard 
• 2. Love is being kind with words and actions 
• 3. Love is something we do.

Loving When It’s Hard

• Luke 6:27 “Love your enemies” 

• 1. Loving others doesn’t mean that they are always nice.
• 2. Love means choosing kindness anyway

• Examples:

• 1. Sharing with someone you don’t like.
• 2. Forgiving instead of getting even.

Call to action

• Think of 1 person you can love on purpose this week.

• Examples:
• 1. Say something kind 
• 2. Help without being asked
• 3. Pray for someone
• 4. Include someone who is left out

• John 13:34 “Love one another 

Memory Statement:

“I choose to love others with kindness, compassion, and gentleness, reflecting the heart of God in all I do.”

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, I pray that you would help me to choose to love others around me even when it is hard. Give me a heart which seeks to show others your love through the way I treat them. Help me to love others as I love myself.