Should you ask someone how you can help, or just stay near them but not say or do anything? Understanding love languages will help you do the right thing.
Notes And Next Steps
1 John 4:7-12  + Part 5 of the series “Family Vacation"
 

Sometimes love seems like a good idea, but then becomes something totally different.

Love is messy because your own heart wants something from love that doesn’t exist in it one bit. Selfishness.

Let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God. (1 John 4:7,8) 

If we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:12)

God’s love fills you; there’s nothing missing in your ability and desire to love, because God loves you.

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:9,10)

Words of affirmation. Quality time. Gift giving. Acts of service. Physical touch.

SPIRITUAL NEXT STEP

Go to 5lovelanguages.com, take the online quiz and learn more about your love language. Ask your family to do it, too. Maybe even your coworkers, housemates or LifeGroup. It’s real and it helps.

Discussion Questions

Go to 5lovelanguages.com, take the online quiz and learn more about your love language. Ask your family to do it, too. Maybe even your coworkers, housemates or LifeGroup. It’s real and it helps.
Who or what makes love more difficult in your life than you want it to be? Write a prayer about loving each other with God’s love.
Go to HeGetsUs.com, scroll down to videos and find “AI Love.” Click on it, first read the description, then watch the video. All the way to the end. Share with a friend who needs Jesus.
Read 1 Corinthians 13. Choose 3 words or phrases: one of them makes you appreciate God’s love for you, another makes you appreciate another’s love for you, and another helps you improve your love for others. Write down the words in a visible place this week. Ask others to do this with you.