Love One Another

Our Grade Three students opened our worship time by playing the song 

Joyful, Joyful on their recorders.

This week we were reminded that the Bible tells us that God loves us so much!

And because he loves us so much, we also should love one another. 

1 John 4:7-12 says, "My dear friends, we must love each other. Love comes from God, and when we love each other, it shows that we have been given new life. We are now God’s children, and we know him. 8 God is love, and anyone who doesn’t love others has never known him. 

9 God showed his love for us when he sent his only Son into the world to give us life. 10 Real love isn’t our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven. 

1 Dear friends, since God loved us this much, we must love each other.12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is truly in our hearts.

Our Grade 3 and 7 classes got together and thought about what it looks and sounds like when we are loving to one another. They shared some of their visual representations with us. 

Then we got together in our GIFT (Growing In Faith Together) groups in the gym. 

We wrote the verse from 1 John 4:16 on the clouds, "God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him."

Each student then wrote a concrete idea or drew a picture of how

s/he could show love to others. 

We love to meet with our GIFT group friends from other grades. 

How will you show love today?