Love Is…

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 (MSG) ⁴ Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Love doesn’t strut, Doesn’t have a swelled head, ⁵ Doesn’t force itself on others, Isn’t always “me first,” Doesn’t fly off the handle, Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

 1 Corinthians 13:6-7 (ESV) ⁶ it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

• Not many of us have read this passage. This is powerful…

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 (ESV) ⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

• All of this we do in the church is not complete until we have love. Love completes it because
• Through Love, God becomes known.
• Through Love, God can be seen.
• Through Love, God can be touched
• Through love, God can touch.3