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(Disciples of Christ)
Jackson Boulevard Christian Church
A Great Motivator
Love reaches for the hurt and takes bold steps without self-interest. It
can accomplish unbelievable things merely because it is so void of self-
interest.
Some time ago, a teenager, Arthur Hinkley, lifted a 3,000-pound tractor
with bare hands. He wasn’t a weight lifter, but his friend, Lloyd
Bachelder, 18, was pinned under a tractor on a farm near Rome,
Maine. Hearing Lloyd scream, Arthur somehow lifted the tractor
enough for Lloyd to wriggle out.
Love was the real motivation.
Calvin Miller, “Rethinking Suburban Evangelism,” Leadership, 1988, p. 68
I Corinthians 13 tells us…
1. God’s Love Is Incarnational - God entered into our world and
demonstrated love in a way we could visualize - understand. We must
go where young people are and where they live out their lives. This in
itself will demonstrate to our young people our love for them.
2. God’s Love Is Patient - We must not make impatient demands but
allow young people to grow at their own pace.
3. God’s Love Is Kind - We must be gentle and sensitive to the needs
and hurts of young people. We must allow them to be teenagers and
not demand that they be something else.
4. God’s Love Is Not Jealous - Our supreme concern must be for our
young people’s growth and not that they just attend our youth program
or our activities.
5. God’s Love Does Not Brag and Is Not Arrogant - We must not
spend our energies building up ourselves, but remember that
servanthood is making the other person successful.
6. God’s Love Does Not Act Unbecomingly - We are not to try to act
like teenagers. Teens do not want leaders who act like them, but
leaders who act like leaders.
7. God’s Love Does Not Seek Its Own - Our desire must be to put
others first. If we cannot do this then we cannot expect our young
people to do it either.
8. God’s Love Is Not Provoked - At times this becomes a great
difficulty, but we must learn as the Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 2. He
stated that in every disappointment he learned to use that situation to
reaffirm love for the person who disappoints him.
9. God’s Love Does Not Take Into Account a Wrong Suffered - Jesus
suffered much wrong and rejection and we, too, must be willing to
experience that same suffering.
10. God’s Love Rejoices With the Truth - Our young people will easily
see our values by what we get most excited about.
11. God’s Love Bears and Believes All Things - We must expect the
best and see people as God sees people - for the potential they can
become with Christ’s help.
12. God’s Love Hopes All Things - We need to memorize Philippians 4:
8 and recite it daily to ourselves.
13. God’s Love Endures All Things - Many heartaches will come our
way, and the desire to give up and quit will often pass through our
minds. But God’s love for us endures even our shortcomings. How can
we do any less'
Sonlife Strategy, MBI, 1983, p. 10
*From a public domain e-mail.*
Love reaches for the hurt and takes bold steps without self-interest. It
can accomplish unbelievable things merely because it is so void of self-
interest.
Some time ago, a teenager, Arthur Hinkley, lifted a 3,000-pound tractor
with bare hands. He wasn’t a weight lifter, but his friend, Lloyd
Bachelder, 18, was pinned under a tractor on a farm near Rome,
Maine. Hearing Lloyd scream, Arthur somehow lifted the tractor
enough for Lloyd to wriggle out.
Love was the real motivation.
Calvin Miller, “Rethinking Suburban Evangelism,” Leadership, 1988, p. 68
I Corinthians 13 tells us…
1. God’s Love Is Incarnational - God entered into our world and
demonstrated love in a way we could visualize - understand. We must
go where young people are and where they live out their lives. This in
itself will demonstrate to our young people our love for them.
2. God’s Love Is Patient - We must not make impatient demands but
allow young people to grow at their own pace.
3. God’s Love Is Kind - We must be gentle and sensitive to the needs
and hurts of young people. We must allow them to be teenagers and
not demand that they be something else.
4. God’s Love Is Not Jealous - Our supreme concern must be for our
young people’s growth and not that they just attend our youth program
or our activities.
5. God’s Love Does Not Brag and Is Not Arrogant - We must not
spend our energies building up ourselves, but remember that
servanthood is making the other person successful.
6. God’s Love Does Not Act Unbecomingly - We are not to try to act
like teenagers. Teens do not want leaders who act like them, but
leaders who act like leaders.
7. God’s Love Does Not Seek Its Own - Our desire must be to put
others first. If we cannot do this then we cannot expect our young
people to do it either.
8. God’s Love Is Not Provoked - At times this becomes a great
difficulty, but we must learn as the Apostle Paul in II Corinthians 2. He
stated that in every disappointment he learned to use that situation to
reaffirm love for the person who disappoints him.
9. God’s Love Does Not Take Into Account a Wrong Suffered - Jesus
suffered much wrong and rejection and we, too, must be willing to
experience that same suffering.
10. God’s Love Rejoices With the Truth - Our young people will easily
see our values by what we get most excited about.
11. God’s Love Bears and Believes All Things - We must expect the
best and see people as God sees people - for the potential they can
become with Christ’s help.
12. God’s Love Hopes All Things - We need to memorize Philippians 4:
8 and recite it daily to ourselves.
13. God’s Love Endures All Things - Many heartaches will come our
way, and the desire to give up and quit will often pass through our
minds. But God’s love for us endures even our shortcomings. How can
we do any less'
Sonlife Strategy, MBI, 1983, p. 10
*From a public domain e-mail.*
| Love - A Great Motivator |
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