Owen & Kara

?What is love?

What are relationships for?How should we understand our sexuality?

What are people for? Why do we exist?

Why is there something rather than nothing?What does this tell us about God?

?What was God doing beforethe creation of the universe?

Why did God create people?

The G lory of Love

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~ Selected Scriptures ~

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

?What was God doing

before creation

“Father, you have loved me before

the creation of the world.”

~ The Gospel of John, 17:24

God is love.“ ”~ The Apostle John in 1 John 4:8

“And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the

heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming

to rest on him; and behold, a voice from heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with

whom I am well pleased.”

~ The Gospel of Matthew 3:16-17

“God’s love has been poured into our

hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

~ Romans 5:5

Father

Son Holy Spirit

?Why did God

create people

“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you

loved me before the creation of the world….

~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of John, ch. 17

“Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you

have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love that you have for me may be in

them and that I myself may be in them.”~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of John, ch. 17

~ Jesus in the Gospel of John ch. 17

“The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even

as we are one. I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and

loved them even as you loved me.”

Father

Son Holy Spirit

You The Believer is united to Christ (“in Christ”) and is drawn into the fellowship of the Trinity.

“…an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison….”

~ The Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:17

“The Father so delights in his eternal love for the Son that he desires to share it with all who will believe. Ultimately, the Father sent the Son because the Father so loved the Son—and wanted to share that love and fellowship. His love for the world is the overflow of his almighty love

for his Son.”

We love because he first loved us.

~ The Apostle John in 1 John 4:19

Reconnect the idea of love, marriage, & sexuality

to God.

Application #1

Join us for the rest of this series.

Application #2

The Covenant of Marriage

Love, Marriage, & Sexuality

The Fall (Part 1): Strangers to OurselvesThe Fall (Part 2): The Plague of Selfishness

Redeemed SexualitySexual Holiness

The Gift of SinglenessThe Dance of Marriage

The Question of DivorceRaising Children for the Lord

The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

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