Pastor Elio Marrocco's "What Is Love" sermon at New Life Christian Church on February 17, 2013. You can learn more about New Life Christian Church here: http://www.newlifecc.ca

1. WHAT IS LOVE?
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2. WHAT IS LOVE?
Consciously or unconsciously, people
believe love is a sensation (based on
physical and emotional attraction) that
magically, spontaneously generates
when Mr. or Ms. Right appears.

3. WHAT IS LOVE?
Erich Fromm,
"There is hardly any activity, any
enterprise, which is started with such
tremendous hopes and expectations,
and yet, which fails so regularly, as
love."

4. WHAT IS LOVE?
The physicist:
‘Love is chemistry’
Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist
and science writer.

5. WHAT IS LOVE?
The psychotherapist:
‘Love has many aspects’
Philippa Perry is a psychotherapist and
author of Couch Fiction.

6. WHAT IS LOVE?
‘Philia’
‘Ludus’
‘Pragma’
‘Agape’
‘Philautia’
‘Eros’

7. WHAT IS LOVE?
The philosopher:
‘Love is a passionate commitment’
Julian Baggini is a philosopher and
writer.

8. WHAT IS LOVE?
The romantic novelist:
‘Love drives all great stories’
Jojo Moyes is a two-time winner of the
Romantic Novel of the Year award.

9. WHAT IS LOVE?
Catherine Wybourne said,
'Love is free yet binds us'. Love is more
easily experienced than defined. As a
theological virtue, by which we love
God above all things and our
neighbours as ourselves for his sake, it
seems remote until we encounter it
enfleshed, so to say, in the life of
another, in acts of kindness, generosity
and self-sacrifice…

10. WHAT IS LOVE?
Catherine Wybourne said,
…Love's the one thing that can never
hurt anyone, although it may cost
dearly. The paradox of love is that it is
supremely free yet attaches us with
bonds stronger than death. It cannot
be bought or sold; there is nothing it
cannot face; love is life's greatest
blessing.’

11. WHAT IS LOVE?
According to the Bible,
love is caring in action.
Love isn't what we feel,
but what we do.

12. WHAT IS LOVE?
DEFINITION,
‘An emotion, sentiment, or feeling of
pleasurable attraction toward, or
delight in something, as a principle,
or a person, or a thing, which induces
a desire for the presence, possession,
well being or promotion of its object.’

13. WHAT IS LOVE?
ORIGIN OF LOVE
1 John 4:8
‘Whoever does not love does not know
God, because God is love.’

14. WHAT IS LOVE?
DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE
‘PHILEO - LOVE’
Romans 12:10
‘Be devoted to one another in love.
Honor one another above yourselves.’

15. WHAT IS LOVE?
DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE
‘PHILEO - LOVE’
1 Thessalonians 4:9
‘Now about your love for one another
we do not need to write to you, for you
yourselves have been taught by God to
love each other.’

16. WHAT IS LOVE?
DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE
‘PHILEO - LOVE’
‘AGAPE’
Romans 5:8
‘But God demonstrates his own love for
us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.’

17. WHAT IS LOVE?
DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE
‘PHILEO - LOVE’
‘AGAPE’
1 John 3:16
‘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 one
another.’

18. WHAT IS LOVE?
At the Cross we learn that Agape-Love
involves a commitment to the welfare
of another without any consideration
of worthiness in the loved one.

19. WHAT IS LOVE?
DIFFERENT KINDS OF LOVE
‘PHILEO - LOVE’
‘AGAPE’
John 3:16
"For God so loved (agape) the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish, but have
eternal life."

20. WHAT IS LOVE?
Actions Affect Feelings

21. WHAT IS LOVE?
While most people believe
love leads to giving;
the truth is exactly the
opposite:
Giving leads to love.

22. WHAT IS LOVE?
OTHER-ORIENTED
1.Care
2.Responsibility
3.Respect

23. WHAT IS LOVE?
1 Corinthians 13,
Patient, kind, truthful, unselfish, trusting,
believing, hopeful, and enduring. It is not
jealous, boastful, arrogant, rude, selfish,
or angry. True love never fails.

24. WHAT IS LOVE?
Matthew 22:37,
"YOU SHALL LOVE(AGAPE) THE LORD
YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART,
AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH
ALL YOUR MIND.“
"YOU SHALL LOVE (AGAPE) YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

25. WHAT IS LOVE?
LOVE GOD
LOVE PEOPLE
LOVE LIFE