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“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious, we discover loneliness.”

- C.S. Lewis

Why, after all the striving, do you still feel so empty and alone?

Humanity’s deepest desire is to be truly KNOWN and fully LOVED.

Where can you find a love that fills that deep longing of the soul?

 

LOVE IS HERE

Love BEGINS with GOD.

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

  • God’s essential ATTRIBUTE is love.

"From God's other known attributes we may learn much about His love. We can know, for instance, that because God is self-existent, His love had no beginning; because He is eternal, His love can have no end; because He is infinite, it has no limit; because He is holy, it is the quintessence of all spotless purity; because He is immense, His love is an incomprehensibly vast, bottomless, shoreless sea before which we kneel in joyful silence and from which the loftiest eloquence retreats confused and abashed.”

- A.W. Tozer

  • God is the SOURCE of love.

“God is the wellspring from which all love flows. Without Him, we are merely cups trying to fill other cups with no source of water.”

- C.S. Lewis

 

Love MADE the first MOVE.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  • God’s love is ACTIVE, not PASSIVE.
  • God’s love is SELF-GIVING, not SELF-PROTECTING.
  • God’s love is UNDESERVED, not EARNED.
  • You are LOVED by God simply because God LOVES you.

“Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence."

- Henri Nouwen

 

Love is COMPLETED in COMMUNITY.

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

  • God’s love flows TO you, and God’s love is to flow THROUGH you.
  • We are most like GOD when we love ONE ANOTHER.