New Life Church in Cupertino
Now What? - Love
Ever drop a glass or a million legos and ask "Now What?" This series will help us handle the next several weeks (election, pandemic, and more) when we are asking the same question. In today's message, we will discuss how to handle relationships with people who are difficult to love, especially the people who see those topics differently than we do! Join us online each Sunday at 10:30am as we find the way forward following Jesus.
Locations & Times
Silicon Valley Christian Assembly
3131 Bowers Ave, Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
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RECAP LAST WEEK
Remaining in Jesus will help us know what to do next.
Remaining in Jesus will help us know what to do next.
Good news: You might be right!
Bad news: They are not the reason you can’t love others.
Bad news: They are not the reason you can’t love others.
FOR DISCUSSION
Have you ever felt that it’s impossible to love people that you really want to love? What helped or didn’t help?
Have you ever felt that it’s impossible to love people that you really want to love? What helped or didn’t help?
KEEP THESE PEOPLE IN MIND
#1 Who is most impossible for you to love?
#2 Who is most important for you to love?
#1 Who is most impossible for you to love?
#2 Who is most important for you to love?
Loving others is an expression, not a condition, of God’s love.
"You can have God’s love without keeping His commands, but you can’t keep His commands without having His love."
- Clay Scroggins
- Clay Scroggins
FOR DISCUSSION
How has your view of God’s love for you impacted your ability to love others?
How has your view of God’s love for you impacted your ability to love others?
REMAINING IN GOD'S LOVE...
#1 Allows me to consider what a mess I was.
#2 Removes all of our excuses not to love others.
#3 Frees us to love difficult people.
#4 Empowers us to do what love requires of us.
#1 Allows me to consider what a mess I was.
#2 Removes all of our excuses not to love others.
#3 Frees us to love difficult people.
#4 Empowers us to do what love requires of us.
Prayer from Sarah Anderson’s book “The Space Between Us”
For family near and peaceable, Lord, we give thanks.
For family far and conflicted, Lord, we give thanks.
For the ones easy to love, Lord, we give thanks.
For the ones we fight to love, Lord, we give thanks.
For people who see as we see, Lord, we give thanks.
For people we don’t understand, Lord, we give thanks.
For people who don’t understand us, Lord, we give thanks.
For easy conversation and expressed affection, Lord, we give thanks.
For gentle discord within our discourse, Lord, we give thanks.
For unity, not sameness, Lord, we give thanks.
For charity in all things, Lord, we give thanks.
For a world that reflects your goodness, Lord, we give thanks.
For humankind that bears your image, Lord, we give thanks.
For a day when we’ll delight in our differences and not just tolerate them,
For a gathering of every tribe and every language,
For a table and a feast today, anticipating the one we’ll enjoy with you someday, Lord, we give thanks. Amen.
For family near and peaceable, Lord, we give thanks.
For family far and conflicted, Lord, we give thanks.
For the ones easy to love, Lord, we give thanks.
For the ones we fight to love, Lord, we give thanks.
For people who see as we see, Lord, we give thanks.
For people we don’t understand, Lord, we give thanks.
For people who don’t understand us, Lord, we give thanks.
For easy conversation and expressed affection, Lord, we give thanks.
For gentle discord within our discourse, Lord, we give thanks.
For unity, not sameness, Lord, we give thanks.
For charity in all things, Lord, we give thanks.
For a world that reflects your goodness, Lord, we give thanks.
For humankind that bears your image, Lord, we give thanks.
For a day when we’ll delight in our differences and not just tolerate them,
For a gathering of every tribe and every language,
For a table and a feast today, anticipating the one we’ll enjoy with you someday, Lord, we give thanks. Amen.
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