Transformative Love: A Daily Choice in Faith

1. "We cannot do church without you. Okay. In fact, I want you to turn to the person next to you and literally say, we can't do church without you. Ready? One, two, three. Some of you are like, what do you mean without me? I barely got here this morning. If I told you what my morning looked like, you could do church without me. I promise you. Here's the thing. We really can't because the church is about its people. It's not about the walls." [41:20] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Love is a choice. It is a choice that you have to make every single day. You have to choose to love. It is an everyday action. Love is not a feeling. Let me say that again. Love is not a feeling. Yes, give you feelings. You will experience feelings because of love, but it's not based on your feelings. Does that make sense? Give me an uh-huh. If it's just based on our feelings, then I'll tell you what, you'll hit rock bottom more times than you won't because it can't just be based on feelings." [48:50] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "It's been said before that you can give without loving. Like I can give without loving. I can give without loving. I can give somebody anything without loving. Honestly, sometimes I can give something to somebody just to get them out of my face, just to get them away from me, just to ignore them. So you can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. You have to give something. You have to take steps. You have to give emotion. You have to give actions. You have to make a decision. You have to give by showing love." [50:18] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Our actions will show that we belong to the truth. So we will be confident. We'll be confident when this is that action set. When, when can we be confident in our love for God? When we stand before God and our actions show how much we love him. That's when we can be confident. And then verse 20 says, even if we feel guilty because we've all been there before in our lives where, man, I feel like I've messed up. I'm not in the, I'm not in the season or the space or the place that I want to be with my relationship with God. So even when we humanly speaking feel guilty, sometimes when it comes to our relationship with God, God is greater." [51:49] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves and be an example in God's love. And here's the thing. Let me remind you of something, though. Just because we love others doesn't mean we have to accept everything they do. But you can still love people. We want to be an example of God. We want to be an example of God's love, again, in a broken world. And don't be shocked if people that don't have a relationship with Jesus act like people who don't have a relationship with Jesus. We're called to love them. We're called to meet them where they are." [01:00:27] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "We want to take some action steps after today. We don't want to just hear a message, kind of get ourselves spiritually full today and then do nothing with it. We want to walk out of these doors different than when we walked in. And today our action step is to show the love of Jesus to a hurting and broken world. And it's a commandment. It says, love each other just as I what? God's saying, love people the way that I have loved you. Think about it. He is worthy. We sang those words just a few minutes ago. He's worthy because of how much he's loved you when you were hurting, when you were broken, when you rejected him, when you were distant from him." [01:01:44] (45 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "For this is how God loved the world. What did he do? He showed action. He did something. He didn't just say he loved you. He didn't just say he loved me. He gave his one and only son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life. God said, I love you so much that I'm willing to give up my son so that there can be a bridge back to me. I know that this world is messed up. I know you can never be perfect, and I'm never going to ask you to be, but I do have to give you a bridge back to me. I'm going to give you something to show you my love for you." [01:03:09] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "The heart, somebody say the heart, cannot love what the mind does not know. And if you study God's word, which is kind of what we're doing here today, we're water skiing a little bit. But as you continue to unpack God's word, you're going to start learning that God's love is abundant. It's caring. It's matchless. It's dependable. It's earnest. I can keep going. It's fierce. It's generous. It's helpful. It's inspiring. It's just. It's kind. It's beautiful. It's natural. Hey, listen, for some of you, sometimes it's overwhelming. It's pure. It's quick. Some of you need quick love. It's relatable. It's reliable. It's sincere. It's trustworthy. It's unmatched. It's loyal. It's wholesome." [01:04:39] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "When you can love before being loved, that's what real love looks like. When you can love when it's difficult to love, that's what real love looks like. 1 John 4, 10. This is what? It's not my words. It's not Pastor Miles' words. It's God's word. This is real love. Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. God didn't owe us anything. He still doesn't owe us anything. And yet, he gives us everything. He meets us where we are every single day. He chooses to love us no matter what." [01:06:12] (54 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "Let's make sure that we prove that love. Somebody say prove that love. We've got to prove that love by how we serve people in our church. That's why we serve. That's why we talk about serving, not just to give you tasks, but because serving shows our love for people. Let's serve our communities. Let's serve people in our families. Because I'm going to tell you what, make no mistake about it. We might talk about our church a lot. We might talk about our communities a lot, but make no mistake about it. Some of you may need to start serving the people that live under the roof of your home and show them God's love." [01:13:44] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)