This series will explore the impact of true love in our relationships. Since the words of love found in 1 Corinthians were written to a church body, we will specifically explore how the claiming or reclaiming of love will change our relationships at Bethel Church. But we will look at this teaching from a wider angle lens also----how will true love impact my marriage and family life? My neighborhood? My workplace? My friendships? My walk with God?

03.22.2009 | Week 9 | What's Love | Scandalous Love
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Scandalous Love

This week we’re going to be finishing up the series “What’s Love Got To Do With It”.  We will consider how our ability to love truly stems from God’s love toward us.  We’ll be exploring our need to constantly be refueled by God’s “Scandalous Love”.

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03.15.2009 | Week 8 | What's Love | Endurance and Eternality
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Endurance and Eternality

According to Paul, there are some things that are temporal and some things are eternal. Love is eternal. So it makes sense to talk about the deep love we can experience through Jesus Christ and His salvation, and how to share that love with others.

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03.08.2009 | Week 7 | What's Love | Clarity and Maturity
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Clarity and Maturity

The more we mature in our faith walk, the more we see how important community is. In this message we will try to assess how much we have grown in love, or need to grow in love for one another.

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03.01.2009 | Week 6 | What's Love | Protection and Perseverance
 


What's Love Got To Do With It - Protection and Perseverance

A number of Christian writers have written recently about “fighting for” the ones you love. Those writers are tapping into the teachings of 1 Corinthians 13, helping us see that real love is ruthlessly loyal. We will tap into those teachings about loyal love.

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02.22.2009 | Week 5 | What's Love | Truth and Justice
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Truth and Justice

Truth-telling is more than just telling the truth---not lying. It’s that safety and confidence and boldness . . . and love---to speak words of truth to one another. Sometimes fear or anxiety or Minnesota Nice keep us from telling each other the truth. We hope to reclaim that dynamic of love in this message.

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02.15.2009 | Week 4 | What's Love | Anger and Clipboards
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Anger and Clipboards

Some of us may have been keeping a clipboard of the wrongs done against us. True love, according to Paul, doesn’t keep records of wrongs. That looks good on paper, but hopefully we can move the teaching from the printed page to our hearts.

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02.08.2009 | Week 3 | What's Love | Humility and Selflessness
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Humility and Selflessness

This message about love will be counter-cultural because we live in a world that repeatedly reminds us that it’s about us. It’s not about us. And we will explore how true humility could transform our relationships with one another.

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02.01.2009 | Week 2 | What's Love | Patience and Kindness
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Patience and Kindness

In this message we will look at how kindness and patience contribute to one’s resume as a loving person. We may find that we have bought into the anxiety and chaos of the world and have reached such a fast pace in life that our relationships are suffering.

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01.25.2009 | Week 1 | What's Love | Perspectives and Priorities
 

What's Love Got To Do With It - Perspectives and Priorities

We will set the stage for this teaching series by looking at the priority of love. What’s going on in Corinth that Paul would need to reclaim this priority? What’s going on in our lives that may need this priority of love reclaimed?

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