2 Peter 1:7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. (ESV)

What is love and how do we increase/grow in it?

1. God is Love.

"Here, the Father declares his love for his Son, and his pleasure in him, and he does so as the Spirit rest on Jesus. For the way the Father makes know his love is precisely through giving his Spirit."
- Michael Reeves

" The Spirit stirs up the delight of the Father in the Son and the delight of the Son in the Father, inflaming their love and so binding them together in 'The fellowship of the Holy Spirit.'"
- Michael Reeves

2. The love that comes from God is sacrificial.

3. We are to love one-another the same way God has loved us.

4. We grow in love by abiding in love.

Sermon Discussion Questions

1. How do you define love?

2. What do you think of the idea of God's love being self-giving?

3. What should be our response to God's love and why?

4. Who is the most loving person you know and why?

5. How do we love one another as God has loved us?

6. What are ways you can grow in love?