December 1, 2024
Love God Love People | Lissie Kevlin
Speaker:
Lissie Kevlin
Message Resources
Message Summary
Lissie shared how she spent her life growing up in church, attended Liberty and went to TCU for college. It wasn’t until she reached college that she realized she didn’t have a relationship or intimacy with God. She had spent her life depending on going through the motions but hadn’t fully surrendered her life to Christ. One of the girls in her sorority was a Christ follower and although they weren’t friends, Lissie knew she was a Christian by her actions. This girl helped lead Lissie to fully surrender to Christ. She didn’t have all the answers or knowledge, but she was willing to walk alongside Lissie to help her grow in her faith and her relationship with God. We are called to do the same thing as disciples of Jesus.
Lissie compared discipleship to being an intern, which involves listening, learning, practicing, failing, and then succeeding. We are Jesus’s interns, His disciples, His students – we are called to live and look like Him. He has promised us a full and abundant life. He calls His people to love God and love people.
We are approaching the time of year when people like to look back and reflect on how their life is going, how they’re growing. We tend to put our earthly focus on independence, even when it comes to raising our children, but in God’s upside kingdom – we are charged to put our dependence in Him. We spend time practicing (bible study, church groups, serving, bible reading plans), but if we aren’t loving people differently – what is the point? We need to remember our relationship with God is all about His goodness, not our own – it’s about what He has already done for us in sacrificing Jesus so we can have a relationship with Him. Keep it simple! Love God, love people.
Discussion
1. How are you growing in your relationship with Christ? How are you growing to depend on him daily?
2. How have your grown in your love for Jesus and your love for others?
3. What has been hard to let go of that you’re giving over to Him?
4. Who can you commit to standing with and loving well in your life? How will you be intentional to do so?
Scriptures
John 10:10 NIV - The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Matthew 22:36-40 NIV - “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-7 NIV - Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door-frames of your houses and on your gates.
1 Corinthians 8:1b NIV - “We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 NIV (Love is patient …. But the greatest of these is love)
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NIV - If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
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