A Modern Take On Love, Sex, & Romance - Week 3

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Notes:

The number one cause of dissatisfaction in romance and marriage comes from a myth we all buy into.

TRUE LOVE’S MAGIC:
- Effortless serving & sacrifice
- Erases painful conflict
- Excuses apathy and accountability
- Encompasses total fulfillment
- Euphoric sex & romance

The myth of ‘true love’ leads to this lie:
I’m wrong for them or they’re wrong for me

What does ‘true love’ look like in the real world?

Loved by another
Romantic attention
Sexual satisfaction

Just because something is “good” doesn’t mean it erases the damage of misuse

What does ‘true love’ look like in the real world?

Philia – deep friendship
Storge – family love
Eros – sexual passion
Agape – selfless love (God’s)

Without “agape love” at the core we will selfishly misuse all other types of love

For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
- John 3:16

Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end.
- John 13:1

…So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
- John 13:4-5

“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”
- John 15:12-13

True LOVE requires the hard work of being selfless

We can’t give what we don’t have
Love doesn’t dismiss different it embraces it
Love is a decision ‘to do’ despite our feelings

Receiving God’s true love in Jesus allows us to pass-on what we don’t naturally have