One of my teaching commitments this term is in the Year 10 Good Life course. We are looking at Flavours of the Kingdom. My topic is “Love”. The students and I have 75 minutes to explore this massive topic. Part of the pleasure I get in teaching here at DCC is the freedom to explore with students in any given class, what the Bible tells us about a concept, an idea, in any given topic.
Here are some of the verses that we are looking at in our class this term. I thought I’d share them this week; on the local and the international social and political landscape, there is much to deal with, much we are being asked to have an opinion about. My sense is that God wants us to do this first and foremost – that is, contemplate what His love is like, how it is to be enacted in our own lives, and then to engage with those we know, and those we are getting to know, and those we don’t, in a way that shines God’s light into their lives through the way we love them.
I hope these verses are helpful, provide an opportunity to reflect (maybe even journal for a while) and enable conversations around the dinner table about what it will look like to love others as God loves us.
Luke 6:31 – Do to others as you would have them do to you.
Luke 6:35 – But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
Romans 12:9 – Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Mark 12:31 – The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 – 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. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Ephesians 4:2 – Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
1 John 4:18-19 – There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us.
John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Colossians 3:14 – And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
1 John 3:16-18 – This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
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