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Fruit of the Spirit: Love
Author: Jeff Fritsche
Fruit of the Spirit: Love
The Aim: To consider together the Fruit of the Spirit of Love
Passage: John 4:1-42
Study Questions:
- Who was your first crush? (Ask one or two folks for a funny story in this)
- When is it most difficult for you to love a person?
- What do you think makes it hard for God to love you?
- Read Romans 8:31-39 and list all the things that cannot separate you from the love of Christ. Is there anything that previously thought would separate you from the love of God?
- How do you live differently if you fully comprehend the love of Christ for you today?
- In light of God’s radical love for us, Read Luke 6:27-38 about this kind of controversial love.
- What does this passage tell us about Jesus?
- What kinds of people does Jesus command His disciples to love? List all the people you are called to love in this passage.
- How is a disciple of Jesus to practically express love according to this passage?
- What is a practical way you can love someone in your life this week? What will you do?
Other passages to study:
Zephaniah 3:16-18
John 8
I John 4:7-21
1 Corinthians 13
Love in the Old Testament:
From this analysis we learn that love in the OT is basically a spontaneous feeling which impels to self-giving or, in relation to things, to the seizure of the object which awakens the feeling, or to the performance of the action in which pleasure is taken. Love is an inexplicable power of soul given in the inward person: (Dt. 6:5). One loves “with all one’s heart and soul and strength” (Dt. 6:5; 13:4) if one does justice to the feeling of love.[1]
[1]Theological dictionary of the New Testament. 1964-c1976. Vols. 5-9 edited by Gerhard Friedrich. Vol. 10 compiled by Ronald Pitkin. (G. Kittel, G. W. Bromiley & G. Friedrich, Ed.) (Vol. 1, Page 22-23). Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
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