The Most Excellent Way: Love Your Family
Pastor Kent Landhuis
THEME – When we serve our brothers and sisters we practice the most excellent way.
OUTLINE – Two attitudes of the most excellent way:
1. Serving requires action.
- James 2:14-17
- Faith without action is dead. (verse 17)
2. Serving has consequences.
- Luke 16:19-31
- Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. ~ Matthew 25:46
3. Serving celebrates kinship.
- Matthew 25:40,45
- Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” ~ Genesis 4:9
NEXT STEPS
- Journal: Lord, where do you want me to serve?
- Take action.
JOURNAL
Lord, where do you want me to serve?
REFLECTION
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:1-7
Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. ~ 1 John 3:18.
Through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ~ Galatians 5:13-14
Do everything in love. ~ 1 Corinthians 16:14
