“INFLUENCER – Week 3 LOVE”

*Pro. 29:18 Where there is no VISION (a dream of revelation), the people perish…!

Everyone influences someone. Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence 10,000 other people during his or her lifetime. Note "Charity": Agape, 116 times Greek words for love. The Bible also mentions phileo, or brotherly love, and eros, erotic love.  Storge, which is a love between family members. Agape love is not a feeling; it is a motivation for action that we are free to choose or reject. Agape is a sacrificial love that freely suffers inconvenience, discomfort, and even death for the benefit of another without expecting anything in return.

Text: *1 Tim. 4:11-12 – be thou an “EXAMPLE” (too'-pos) = a die as struck or cast! How? - #1 in word, #2 in conversation,#3 IN CHARITY(AGAPE), #4 in spirit, #5 in faith, #6 in purity.

                                                #1 IMITATE   

*Read Eph. 5:1-2, & 8 – We are called to agape love through Christ's “EXAMPLE” Note “FOLLOWERS” (mim-ay-tace’) an imitator. See Paul’s influence after Jesus: 1 Cor. 4:14-21.  

                                       #2 IMPACT    

*Read John 13:34-35 – note COMMAND not an OPTION to love AS Christ loved! Notice the impact “ALL MEN” shall know! Read Matt.24:12 then Exodus 15:8 hotter or colder? (When God blows on the Christian, we get hotter and hotter yet on the unbelievers they wax colder)

                                       #3 INSIDE          

*Read John 17:26, Rom. 5:5 & 8, Gal 5:22-25& Rev. 1:5-6- note your source of “LOVE” is God!