saluki downtime April 27, 2026 - You have to Love

Saluki downTime April 27, 2026

Love Series - #3 Love others. 


Games: 

Ping pong - keep it in the air the longest. 

Card game - highest pick wins. 

Rock paper scissor - 1 time. 



1. jesus loved the people around him

2. Jesus loves you


3. You have to love others. 

Love thy neighbor as thyself


You have to love others. 


Why? Because Jesus said so. 


❤️ Tough Questions About Loving Others (With Scripture)

🧠 Mindset / honesty

  1. Why is it harder to love difficult people?
     👉 Because real love requires patience and selflessness
     📖 1 Corinthians 13:4 – “Love is patient…”

  1. Can you say you love someone if your actions don’t show it?
     👉 No—love is shown through what you do
     📖 1 John 3:18 – “Let us not love with words… but with actions and truth.”

  1. Why do we take people closest to us for granted?
     👉 Because love becomes comfortable instead of intentional
     📖 Philippians 2:3 – “Value others above yourselves.”

🔥 Hard truth

  1. Can you love someone and avoid them?
    👉 No—love sometimes requires truth and action
     📖 Ephesians 4:15 – “Speak the truth in love.”

  1. Can you love someone and still correct them?
     👉 Yes—love includes accountability
     📖 Proverbs 27:6 – “Wounds from a friend can be trusted.”

  1. Why do some people only love when it’s convenient?
     👉 Because real love requires sacrifice
     📖 John 15:13 – “Greater love… to lay down one’s life…”

👥 Relationships

  1. How do you love someone who doesn’t treat you well?
     👉 Love them, but set boundaries and don’t repay evil
     📖 Romans 12:17–18

  1. When someone hurts you, what does love require?
     👉 Forgiveness
     📖 Colossians 3:13 – “Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”

  1. How do you love someone you don’t agree with?
     👉 With humility and respect
     📖 Romans 12:10 – “Honor one another above yourselves.”

💭 Self-reflection

  1. Who is hardest for you to love—and why?
     👉 (Personal)
     📖 Matthew 5:44 – “Love your enemies…”

  1. Do you love people based on how they treat you?
     👉 Real love goes beyond that
     📖 Luke 6:32 – “If you love those who love you…”

  1. Where do you fall short in loving others?
     👉 (Personal)
     📖 1 Corinthians 13:5 – “Love is not self-seeking…”


💥 Challenge (your style)

  1. Do you love people—or just what they do for you?
     👉 Real love isn’t selfish
     📖 1 Corinthians 13:5

  1. Are you patient with others like you expect them to be with you?
     👉 That’s what love requires
     📖 Colossians 3:12 – “Clothe yourselves with… patience”

  1. If your actions defined your love, what would it show?
     👉 (Personal reflection)
     📖 James 2:17 – “Faith without works is dead” (same idea applied to love)

🔥 Strong closer

👉 “Do you love people when it costs you something?”

📖 Luke 6:35 – “Love your enemies… expecting nothing in return.”


13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

You don’t get to choose who you love. 


End of verse 3 - 

But do not have love, I gain nothing. 


Verse 4

Love is patient. 

Ever been around someone that says they love you but are not patient with you? 

What about you? Been around someone you say you love but aren’t patient with them? 


Love is kind - You do not have the right to not be kind to everyone. There is no reason or any excuse to be unkind in this world. 


It does not envy. Ever wanted someone elses stuff? That is not love. 

  1. Do not covet (desire) your neighbor's house, spouse, or their stuff. 


It does not boast, it is not proud. These two go together. You have what you have and are what you are because of God. Thats the fact. Did you do something to get where you are. Of course. But God is the ultimate reason. God wants you where you are using what he gave you. 


It does not dishonor others. It is not self seeking. How do these two go together? 


Love is not easily angered. How does this work in real life? 


Whats the limit? Is Anger a sin? So what line do we need to not cross? What line is ok to cross? 


It keeps no record of wrongs. Who does this? Honestly. 


6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 


7 It always protects, 

always trusts, 

always hopes, 

always perseveres.


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