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Theyll Know Us by Our Love

The document is a devotional by Pastor Rick Warren about developing a loving lifestyle as a Christian. It discusses that love is the sign of a Christian and challenges readers to start acting lovingly in their relationships by seeking reconciliation where needed. It also encourages increasing the number of relationships to build in order to show God's love to others. Developing a loving lifestyle requires spending time with others, as love always costs time and energy. The devotional imagines what would happen if all Christians committed to acting in love - it would change the world by growing God's kingdom and attracting people to Christ through the love shown by his followers.

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Theyll Know Us by Our Love

The document is a devotional by Pastor Rick Warren about developing a loving lifestyle as a Christian. It discusses that love is the sign of a Christian and challenges readers to start acting lovingly in their relationships by seeking reconciliation where needed. It also encourages increasing the number of relationships to build in order to show God's love to others. Developing a loving lifestyle requires spending time with others, as love always costs time and energy. The devotional imagines what would happen if all Christians committed to acting in love - it would change the world by growing God's kingdom and attracting people to Christ through the love shown by his followers.

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They’ll Know Us by Our Love

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November 6, 2023

by Rick Warren — November 6, 2023


From How God Turns Setbacks into Comebacks

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

John 13:35 (NIV)

The sign of a Christian is love. How many people know you’re a Christian because of your
loving lifestyle?

We sing about love, talk about love, pray about love, and study love. But do we show it? To
develop love as your life principle and make it your greatest aim, you need to take action as
soon as you finish reading this devotional—because love acts!

Here’s what you need to do to develop a loving lifestyle.

First, start acting lovingly in your relationships. Have you acted unlovingly toward someone?
It’s time to seek reconciliation. Make things right with your kids, your spouse, your boyfriend
or girlfriend, your parents, or someone at school or work.

Then, start increasing the number of relationships you have. If the most important aim in life
is to love, then we need to build as many relationships as possible. Why? Because the
world will know about God’s love by the way Christians love each other—and by how
Christians love other people around the world.

You cannot live a loving lifestyle as a hermit. You spell love T-I-M-E. It takes time to love
other people. If you love your friends, you’ve got to spend time with them. If you love your
kids, you spend time with them. If you love Jesus, you have to spend time with him too.

Love always costs time and energy. But it’s always worth it.

Can you imagine what would happen if everyone in the church loved like this—if we all
committed ourselves to acting in love and giving our time unselfishly so that people could
get a taste of how much God loves them? It would change the world. It would grow God’s
Kingdom. It would make God so happy.

People are attracted to Christ more than they are persuaded to him. They’re attracted by
the love of God shown through the people who claim to follow him. And they won’t care
what we know until they first know that we care.

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Talk It Over

How does the way you show love to everyone influence the people in your life who
aren’t followers of Jesus?
With whom do you need to seek reconciliation in love? How can you take the first
step?
What might be keeping you from developing and deepening more relationships?

God loves us even though we sin. In fact, he loves us so much that he sent his Son,
Jesus, to cleanse us from our sins and bring us into the family of God.

If you’ve never accepted God’s love and invited Jesus into your heart, I want you to have
that opportunity now. Pray this prayer: “Dear God, I don’t understand it all, but I thank you
that you love me. I thank you that you are for me and that you didn’t send Jesus to
condemn me but to save me by dying on the cross to pay the penalty for my sins. I admit I
need Jesus as my Savior, and today I want to ask Jesus into my heart. I want a relationship
with Jesus. I want to follow him and do the things he tells me to do.

“I ask you to save me from my past, my regrets, my mistakes, my sins, my habits, my hurts,
and my hang-ups. I ask you to save me for your purpose. I want to know why you put me on
this planet. And I want to fulfill what you made me to do. I want to learn to love you and trust
you and be in your family forever. In your name I pray. Amen.”

If you just prayed to accept Jesus, please email me at [email protected] and let me
know about it. I’d like to send you some free materials to help you start your journey with
Jesus.

Give hope, prayer, and encouragement below. Post a comment & talk about
it.

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