The Gospel Project® for Adults
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way,
we also must love one another.
If I speak human or angelic tongues
but do not have love,
I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains
but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give away all my possessions,
and if I give over my body in order to boast
but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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Following Christ’s example,
we must love others sacrificially.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 (the bold words fill in blanks
Knowledge and actions, even if learned
and done for the Lord, are pointless
if we don’t have love.
As Paul needed to remind the church at Corinth
to love one another,
we need the same reminder today.
Paul called the believers in Corinth to live a better way
by exhorting them to love one another.
As followers of Jesus, we should be committed
to living this better way as well.
“Right love of God is what enables right love of self and others.
When we devote heart, soul, mind, and strength
to loving [God],
we perceive ourselves rightly—no room for pride
or self-exaltation—which prepares us
to love our neighbor freely.
Rightly perceiving ourselves to be the unworthy recipients
of the agape [love] of God,
we become willing to love our neighbor in spite of himself
because God first loved us in spite of ourselves.
We do not wait to feel love;
rather, we will ourselves to act in love whether we feel it or not.
Agape transcends our feelings.” 3
– Jen Wilkin