‘Responding to the wonder of grace: genuine love’ (Romans 12:9-10)

The world often throws up the line or the comeback that ‘love is love’. Well, it is, and it isn’t. In Romans 12:9-10, the Apostle Paul, gives us some clear instructions as to how God’s people should ensure that ‘love’ is the key to the way we function as a church. He speaks of love, but not as the world understands it, rather as God defines it -and He has the right to define it – after all, we only love because ‘He loved us first’.

Message

Outline

• The fourth in this series
• A quick backtrack…
• From gifts to ‘graces’
• See how Paul points us to a kind of love that is …

Free from hypocrisy (v.9a)

Full of discernment (v.9b)

Focused on others (v.10)

Have I ever truly loved another?
Where this all starts!