Overflowing Love: Cultivating Joy in Relationships
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "How often do you ask questions to others to get to know them? Think about that for a moment. How often do you ask questions to others to get to know them? And I really mean that. Not, what's the weather like? Right? It's a third party answer. Look outside the window. You know, like it's, what do you, how are you getting to know someone? How often do you do that? Think about that for a moment." [42:46]
2. "There's a woman, Heather Holloman, she writes a book. It's called The Six Conversations. And a lot of her theory is based on that we as people do not ask questions to other people. We don't do it well enough. We either don't know how to. We're scared. We're so internally focused. And she talks about in her, the thing that she's, I guess, like what she's about is that bringing joy into people's lives by creating meaningful connections that are based on good conversations and questions." [43:26]
3. "Tell me your story. I always joke with my wife. I'm always like, when I go meet someone new, I'm like, all right, tell me how much of their story you think I can get to know in one setting. And I try to do that. Like, people might think I'm weird, but I come back, and I'll be like, all right, here's what I got for you. And like, you know, when you ask people things, you know, hey, where'd you move from? What'd you do before that? You know? What was it like growing up? Where'd you grow up? What was it like growing up there?" [45:18]
4. "If someone's life seems off to you, he goes, it's a part of the story you don't understand, or you don't know about. He goes, if someone just doesn't know, if someone just seems off or different, or whatever's going on with them, it just doesn't add up to you. He says, that's a part of the story you just don't understand of theirs. And that's maybe you can ask or talk about, but it's gaining the knowledge to know what people's needs are in their life." [40:55]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Paul is saying, this is what love overflowing looks like. It's to get knowledge, but you get that through asking questions. Let me just give us a couple. You can obviously do some of your own research, but let me just give us a couple for some different ways to kind of get going. The best one is tell me your story. All right, tell me your story." [44:53]
2. "He says, this is the type of love, this is the type of love that should overflow. This is what he's praying for. In fact, in John 13, he says, this is what the church should be marked for. He says, your love for one another will prove to the world that you're my disciples. It's not what songs you sing on a Sunday morning. It's not, did you have good coffee? Did you have this taken place? It's your love. This is the most important thing that he says a body of believers can have towards one another." [39:26]
3. "Paul is praying for their spiritual lives. That they would have a love that would overflow with knowledge and discernment. He says this in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 15 of the church of Ephesus. He says, For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom, of revelation, and the knowledge of him." [36:52]
4. "So again, just something to listen to. Again, we can go on in this. But again, knowledge, having an understanding of people's lives and the perceived, their deepest needs, the need can often be unseen and unsaid. We gotta get to that through good questions. Then he goes, with knowledge and discernment, here's discernment, is having the wisdom as to how to meet a need in one's life. So you hear the need. What do I do with this need now? It's our foundation for meeting a need is the word of God through the power of the Holy Spirit." [48:55]
5. "He says this in verse 11. He says, because your good questions should be with pure motives, it should be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. And so he's saying, what are the results of this love? What are the results of love? Having known the need, discerning the need, taking it and picking it up, making the best excellent choice, and doing it with right motives, what's the results of that? Well, the results of that from verse 11 says it's bearing the fruit of the Spirit and it's also bearing the life of Christ." [54:10]
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1. "How often do you ask questions to others to get to know them? Think about that for a moment. How often do you ask questions to others to get to know them? And I really mean that. Not, what's the weather like? Right? It's a third party answer. Look outside the window. You know, like it's, what do you, how are you getting to know someone? How often do you do that? Think about that for a moment." [42:46]
2. "There's a woman, Heather Holloman, she writes a book. It's called The Six Conversations. And a lot of her theory is based on that we as people do not ask questions to other people. We don't do it well enough. We either don't know how to. We're scared. We're so internally focused. And she talks about in her, the thing that she's, I guess, like what she's about is that bringing joy into people's lives by creating meaningful connections that are based on good conversations and questions." [43:26]
3. "Tell me your story. I always joke with my wife. I'm always like, when I go meet someone new, I'm like, all right, tell me how much of their story you think I can get to know in one setting. And I try to do that. Like, people might think I'm weird, but I come back, and I'll be like, all right, here's what I got for you. And like, you know, when you ask people things, you know, hey, where'd you move from? What'd you do before that? You know? What was it like growing up? Where'd you grow up? What was it like growing up there?" [45:18]
4. "If someone's life seems off to you, he goes, it's a part of the story you don't understand, or you don't know about. He goes, if someone just doesn't know, if someone just seems off or different, or whatever's going on with them, it just doesn't add up to you. He says, that's a part of the story you just don't understand of theirs. And that's maybe you can ask or talk about, but it's gaining the knowledge to know what people's needs are in their life." [40:55]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Paul is saying, this is what love overflowing looks like. It's to get knowledge, but you get that through asking questions. Let me just give us a couple. You can obviously do some of your own research, but let me just give us a couple for some different ways to kind of get going. The best one is tell me your story. All right, tell me your story." [44:53]
2. "He says, this is the type of love, this is the type of love that should overflow. This is what he's praying for. In fact, in John 13, he says, this is what the church should be marked for. He says, your love for one another will prove to the world that you're my disciples. It's not what songs you sing on a Sunday morning. It's not, did you have good coffee? Did you have this taken place? It's your love. This is the most important thing that he says a body of believers can have towards one another." [39:26]
3. "Paul is praying for their spiritual lives. That they would have a love that would overflow with knowledge and discernment. He says this in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 15 of the church of Ephesus. He says, For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom, of revelation, and the knowledge of him." [36:52]
4. "So again, just something to listen to. Again, we can go on in this. But again, knowledge, having an understanding of people's lives and the perceived, their deepest needs, the need can often be unseen and unsaid. We gotta get to that through good questions. Then he goes, with knowledge and discernment, here's discernment, is having the wisdom as to how to meet a need in one's life. So you hear the need. What do I do with this need now? It's our foundation for meeting a need is the word of God through the power of the Holy Spirit." [48:55]
5. "He says this in verse 11. He says, because your good questions should be with pure motives, it should be filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. And so he's saying, what are the results of this love? What are the results of love? Having known the need, discerning the need, taking it and picking it up, making the best excellent choice, and doing it with right motives, what's the results of that? Well, the results of that from verse 11 says it's bearing the fruit of the Spirit and it's also bearing the life of Christ." [54:10]
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