“’Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?’ And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.” (Matt. 22:36-40)

• What does Jesus say is the most important rule or commandment? 
• What are we commanded to do in these verses?

Jesus said to His disciples: “So now I am giving you a new commandment. Love each other.  Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples” (John 13:34-35).

• What will our love for one another show the world?

“Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things… love never fails..”  (I Cor. 13:1-8).

• Which description of love do you like the best? 
• Which one is new or sticks out? 
• Which one have you personally experienced with God or another human? 
• Who do you know who displays love like this?
• Which one do you want to practice more? 

“Dear friends, 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, because God is love. 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. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us” (1 John 4:7-12).

• How many times do you see the word "LOVE" in this passage?
• According to this passage where does love come from?
• How did God show His love to us?

“Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law” (Romans 13:8).

• Who are we called to love according to this verse?
• Who is “one another”? 
• Who is your neighbor? 
• When have you loved your neighbor?

“Now that your obedience to the truth has purified your souls, you can have true love for your Christian brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply with all your heart” (I Pet. 1:22).

• Who are we called to love according to this verse? 
• How are we called to love? 
• When have you loved your Christian brothers and sisters?

“But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you” (Luke 6:27).
 

• Who are we called to love according to this verse? 
• How are we to love them? 
• When have you loved an enemy?

“God has given us this task of reconciling people to him.  For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:18-21).

• What does reconcile mean according to this passage? 
• When have you shared God’s love with others - What was that like? 
• What is the role of an ambassador? 
• How would you explain what an ambassador is?
• When have you told someone about Jesus/led them to Christ - What was that like?