“Learning to Love Strangers”

I. Moving from a transaction to a transformation

A. What is a transactional relationship? (Acts 8:18-19)

B. What is a transformational relationship? (2 Corinthians 5:17)

C. Are your relationships transactional or transformational?

D. Is your relationship with Jesus transactional or transformational?

II. Learning to love others the way we have been loved (1 John 4:7-12)

A. Love is a natural byproduct of knowing Jesus. (1 John 4:7)

B. Love is the nonnegotiable quality of the Christian life. (1 John 4:8)

C. God wants us to know of His love. (1 John 4:9)

D. God loved us first. (1 John 4:10)

E. Love is how we show people who Jesus is. (1 John 4:11-12)