12/20/2020
Good morning and welcome to Worship.
Our worship service will not be cast live on Facebook this morning as we mourn the death of our Worship Leader, Leeann Champagne. It is a tough time for all of use on the worship team. We'll be back next week.
Here we have provided some notes taken from today's message. You are invited to read, ponder and pray of these thoughts and scriptures.
We wish you a blessed Christmas. We are all finding fresh blessings even in these tough times.
**MESSAGE NOTES December 20, 2020**
"Christmas Love"
1.) The story of Christmas is the beginning of the story of SACRIFICE.
-But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Romans 5:8 NLT
-God showed how much he loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. 1 John 4:9-10 NLT
2.) God also demands that WE possess that same kind of love.
-Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us. 1 John 4:11 NLT
-We know what real love is because Christ gave up his life for us. And so we also ought to give up our lives for our Christian brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16 NLT
3.) Christmas love is about today, and about the people around you.
-If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen? And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too. 1 John 4:20-21 NLT
-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 NLT
-Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions. 1 John 3:18 NLT