Sermon Slide Deck: "No Greater Love" (John 15:12-13)

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“My primary question, over
time, became a question
about love. Where was I to
ﬁnd love? Where was I to
give love? If Scrip...

I would be such a
friend to someone.
The Invention of Love,
by Tom Stoppard
“

Eros
(romantic love)

Eros
(romantic love)
Agape
(selfless love)
Philia
(friendship love)

“There is, in fact,
a place for love,
and it’s called
friendship.”

crowded
l o n e l i n e s s

Could we be the
first generation
that knows
nothing about the
meaning of true
friendship
?

No Greater Love
image: maﬂeen
~ The Gospel of John 15:12-13 ~

This is my commandment, that you love
The Gospel of John 15:12-13
one another as I have loved you. Greater
love has no one...

This is my commandment, that you love
The Gospel of John 15:12-13
one another as I have loved you. Greater
love has no one...

“See to what limits love
should reach among
friends, namely to a
willingness to die for
each other…. Though
challenged, th...

“Ruth and Naomi”
by Herbert K. Bourne

“Do not urge me to leave
you or to return from
following you. For where
you go I will go, and where
you lodge I will lodge...

David & Jonathan

David & Jonathan
1 Samuel 18:1, 2-4
“As soon as he had ﬁnished
speaking to Saul, the soul of
Jonathan was knit to the soul...

David & Jonathan
1 Samuel 20:41-42
“And they kissed one another
and wept with one another,
David weeping the most.
Then Jo...

“I am distressed for you,
my brother Jonathan;
very pleasant have you
been to me; your love to
me was extraordinary,
surpa...

“There is a friend who
sticks closer than a
brother.”
~ Proverbs 18:24
“…your friend who is as your own soul….”
~ Deuteron...

Jesus’ Friends

?
If Jesus was the perfect human
being, and if Jesus desired friends
and loved them deeply, then why do
you think that dee...

“And he answered them,
‘Who are my mother and
my brothers?’ And looking
about at those who sat
around him, he said,
‘Here ...

“Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or
brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or
lands, ...

•FORGIVES One Another
THE NEW FAMILY OF JESUS
•SHOWS HOSPITALITY to One Another
•ENCOURAGES One Another
•LOOKS OUT for One...

Following Jesus transforms
our lives so that we would gladly
lay down our lives for our friends
precisely because we love ...

Follow Jesus into deep,
loving friendships.

“For one will scarcely die for a
righteous person—though
perhaps for a good person
one would dare even to die—
but God sho...

“By this we know
love, that he laid
down his life for us,
and we ought to lay
down our lives for
our brothers.”
~ The Apos...

“Having puriﬁed your
souls by your obedience
to the truth for a sincere
brotherly love, love one
another earnestly from a
...

“Now concerning brotherly love, you have
no need of anyone to write you for you
yourselves have been taught by God to
love...

Ask yourself…
Could I be such
a friend to someone?

Theen Moy: https://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/theenmoy/14138348137
contemplative imagining: http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/thomas-m...

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