1. A Rose Among
Thorns
What Does it Mean to Love Well?

2. What Is Love?
Love is a rose but you better not pick it,
Only grows when it's on the vine
Handful of thorns and you know you've
missed it
Lose your love when you say the
word, "Mine."
- Neil Young

3. What Is Love?
1."Pagan" love.
Matthew 5:46 If you love those
who love you, what reward will you
get? Are not even the tax
collectors doing that?

4. What Is Love?
1."Pagan" love.
47 And if you greet only your
brothers, what are you doing more
than others? Do not even pagans
do that?"

5. What Is Love?
2."Neighborly " love.
Matthew 5:43 "You have heard
that it was said, 'Love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.'"

6. What Is Love?
Find a need and meet it.

7. What Is Love?
3."Enemy" love.
Matthew 5:44 But I tell you: Love
your enemies and pray for those
who persecute you, …

8. What Is Love?
4."God’s" love.
Matthew 5:43 ...that you may
be sons of your Father in heaven.
He causes his sun to rise on the
evil and the good, and sends rain
on the righteous and the
unrighteous.

9. What Is Love?
4."God’s" love.
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your
heavenly Father is perfect.

10. What Is Love?
• Not deserved.
• Demonstrated.
• Redemptive.
• Relational.
• Committed.

11. What Is Love?
1 John 4:8 He who does not love
does not know God; for God is
love.

12. What Is Love?
1 John 4:19 We love, because he
first loved us.

13. What Is Love?
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ loved
the church and gave Himself up
for her.