What Is Love?

Shane Kennard

What Is Love?

16For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only  Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

All we want each other to do is love each other. Sounds great.

But I’ve never heard anyone answer the question…

What is Love?

Generally, when we look around, the love we see is…

  1. A gushy emotion.
  2. Lust.
  3. You doing and thinking what I want.

None of these are the deep seated change the world type of love.

What is Love?

Love is Sacrifice

To Lead, we must Influence.
To Influence, we must have Presence.
To have Presence, we must Love.
To Love, we must Sacrifice.

God is leading towards a preferred future of everyone to be reborn into his image. So he sent His Image to this earth to sacrifice. God gave all he had…his Son…himself…to Influence us towards his preferred future for us.

This is our leadership example. We have a preferred future we’re leading others towards. The more Sacrifice we have towards the people we’re leading, the more Influence we will have.


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