Looks Like Love - 1 John 3.11-24

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The Passage

1 John 3:11-24

The One Thing

God is greater than your heart

Know

• K1 Share your funniest / most frustrating customer service experience.

Grow

• G1 How is the view of the heart in Jeremiah 17:9 at odds with how today’s culture views the heart? In light of verse 9, Is verse 10 a comforting or troubling verse to you?
• G2 “God is greater than our hearts”. The Greek word for greater in this verse is “mega”. Brainstorm different words in English that have the word “mega” in them. How do these words help us to grasp how much greater God is than our hearts?
• G3 Read verse 20 + 21. Look at the phrases: “if our hearts do / do not condemn us”. What is our source of confidence (verse 19) is each case? How can 1 John 2:1-2 shed further light on these verses?
• G4 Read 1 John 3:15. Try to explain / describe the hatred being referenced in this verse. What does it look like? Compare with 1 John 2:9-11. What does it mean that John included this statement (3:15) in a letter to the church?
• G5 Both 1 John 2:28 and 1 John 3:21 talk about confidence in God. What is the source of this confidence? Do you have this confidence? What does it take to actually have this confidence as a daily reality?
• G6 Verse 16, verse 19 and verse 24 all use the phrase “This is how we know…”. According to these verses, what can the ordinary Christian know and what is the source of that knowledge?

Show

• S1 As we start to move towards Christmas, take time to firm up the show project you can do to live out 1 John 3:17-18. Choose a point person and decide the when, where, who and how.