Transcript Elements of an Effective Witness

THE PHBF STORY :
Who We Are &
What We’re About
Love's Necessity
Worthless without love:
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Tongues
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Prophecy
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Knowledge
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Faith
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Giving
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Love's Necessity
It is easier to be orthodox than to be loving,
and easier to be active in church work that to
be loving. Yet the supreme characteristic that
God demands of His people is love. In opposing
that love, the enemy of the church makes some of his
supreme efforts.
~ John MacArthur, 1 Corinthians
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Love's Activity
Sixteen action verbs:
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Love patients.
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Love resents not.
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Love kinds.
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Love delights not in evil.
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Love envies not.
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Love delights in truth.
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Love boasts not.
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Love protects.
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Love puffs up not.
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Love trusts.
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Love acts rude not.
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Love hopes.
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Love seeks its own not.
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Love perseveres.
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Love gets provoked not.
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Love never fails.
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Love's Fundamentals
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Love is patient.
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Love is kind.
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Love's Denials
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Love does not envy.
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Love does not boast, is not arrogant.
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Love is not rude.
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Love does not insist on its own way.
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Love's Refusals
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Love is not irritable.
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Love is not resentful.
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Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing.
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Love's Universals
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Love bears all things.
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Love believes all things.
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Love hopes all things.
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Love endures all things.
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Love never fails.
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How can we love like this?
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Don't wait on your feelings. Act.
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Preach the gospel to yourself every day.
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Who-ever
does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 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. 10 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 4:7-10
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How can we love like this?
When my mind is fixed on the gospel, I have
ample stimulation to show God’s love to other
people. For I am always willing to show love to
others when I am freshly mindful of the love
that God has shown me.
~ Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer for Christians
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