Family Projects

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Family Projects

• Compose a definition of success for you and/or
  your family made up entirely of Scripture.
  Success for me/us is.
• Compose a doctrinal statement of Scriptures that
  you and your family will not compromise.
• Start memorizing a chapter of the Bible.
• Think of ways to minister to other people.
• Purpose to know and share the Gospel.

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TEN WAYS TO RECOGNIZE TRUE LOVE

• Dr.Jobe Martin
• Biblical Discipleship Ministries
• www.biblicaldiscipleship.org

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Luke 252 And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom,
and stature, and in favor with God and men.

• 1) True love involves an enthusiastic response to
  the total self of the one who is loved.
• You dont fall in love you wait for love.
• You dont fall in love with a bodyyou learn to
  love a person (marry a body and it will grow old
  and wrinkled---it is the character wrapped up in
  the body that is important.)

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2) True love has a quality of self-giving.

• Your strongest desire is to enrich the loved one,
  not to exploit.
• If you enter marriage with your strongest desire
  to completely satisfy your mate and vice-versa,
  and you are both sold out to satisfying the Lord
  Jesus, then you have the ingredients for a
  successful Christian marriagetotal commitment to
  God and each other.

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3) True Love always embraces real responsibility
to the one loved.

• What qualities are you looking for in another
  person?
• What qualities do you most admire? How many of
  these qualities are true of you?

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4) True love is marked by real joy in the
presence of the one loved.

• It does not irritate you when they are around.
• There is true sorrow or loneliness when
  separated.

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5) True love involves mutual enjoyment of each
others company

• The physical expression is not constantly
  necessary.
• There should be more to share than just a body.
• If you would take all the physical expression out
  of your relationship, what would you have left?

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6) True love tends to be protective of the one
loved.

• 7) True love tends to build each other up.
• 8) True love has a feeling of belongingness, you
  want to share all.
• 9) True love generates feelings of pleasure as
  well as reverence.
• 10) True love always keeps growing and maturing.
• I Corinthians 13

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COMMITMENT TO COMMUNICATION

• TWO KEYS
• 1) The key to love opens the door to
  communication in an active sense. I Corinthians
  134-7
• The key of blessing opens the door to
  communication in a reactive sense. I Peter 39

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Explanation of Biblical Love

• 1) Love suffers long the kind of love that
  waits and prays for the reformation of your mate
  rather than striking out in resentment at his or
  her conduct.
• 2) Love is kind it responds with a blessing
  when insulted and seizes on opportunities to
  demonstrate tenderness.
• 3) Love envies not no competitive spirit
  between loved ones.

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4) Love vaunts not itself never brag about your
strength to magnify your mates weaknesses.

• 5) Love is not proud no superspirituality.
• 6) Love does not behave unseemly love has good
  manners.
• 7) Love is not selfish it always seeks the best
  interests of the other.
• 8) Love is not easily provoked a weakness or
  offense in your loved one should not cause you to
  be bitter or angry, if it does, you are not
  loving.

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9) Love thinks no evil cast all your mates
offenses into the sea and put up a no-fishing
sign. Get rid of your mental filing system.