The text this week is Galatians 5:1-15, where Paul tells us that true freedom is faith expressing itself through love. The worship theme is “His Love, Our Love,” focusing first on the way God loves us and then on the way that love is expressed to others. The visual theme will be open jail cells and broken chains – freedom.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 180429 Heart Prep
Worship:
Love Divine All Loves Excelling
Hannah’s version (audio only): Hannah vocal Love Divine
Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.
John 15:12-17 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
1 John 4:7-12 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
Wasn’t sure which one we’re doing so:
Your Love Never Fails
One Thing Remains
Oh The Deep Deep Love Of Jesus
Offertory:
The Love of God – Rich Mullins
Benediction:
Beloved Let Us Love One Another