| William Willis - 2005 - 164 pagini
...expression and participation in the life of the church. "I give you a new commandment, that you love [agape] one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" ffn 13:34-35).... | |
| Kit Sublett - 2005 - 128 pagini
...equate fellowship with evangelism. Yet, in John 13:34-35, Jesus says: "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for... | |
| Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken - 2005 - 443 pagini
...one another" (John 13:343). The love that Jesus requires is modeled on the ethic of Jesus himself: "Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another" (John 13:34^ cf. 15:12). This is later explained as Jesus' willingness to die for others: "No one has greater... | |
| Lauren Bell - 2005 - 214 pagini
...those in whom He desires me to invest. Jesus says in John 13:34, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another." Love defines the life of a true and mature disciple. An immature disciple... | |
| Catherine Bergstrom - 2005 - 134 pagini
...from all faiths saw in him a witness to God's great love. By keeping God's commandment: "This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you ..." (John 15:12), we are expressing our love for God. Our human love, then, becomes divine love. Bending... | |
| Clau Finlay-Parker - 2005 - 122 pagini
...us of how we should love God and each other. He writes of Jesus teaching them, saying, "this is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you." (John 15:12) When we obey this commandment, we put God first in our lives and in everything that we... | |
| Livingston Blauvelt - 2005 - 398 pagini
...responsibilities are ours because of the command in God's Word to "love one another." Jesus said, "This is my commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you" (John 15:12). In fact, in this very chapter, we are told that there is one debt we cannot pay off -... | |
| Neil Cole - 2005 - 277 pagini
...you" (John 15:4). He goes on to instruct us in our nurturing relationships when He says, "This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you" (John 15:12). He concludes this important message with apostolic mission when He says, "When the Helper... | |
| Michael E. Chalberg - 2005 - 526 pagini
...things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends,... | |
| John Trent, Rodney Cox, Eric Tooker - 2005 - 124 pagini
...the same. "Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. . . . This is My commandment, that you love one another just as I have loved you" (John 15: 9, 12). Consider the eternal progression of God's love. God loves his Son, Jesus loves us,... | |
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