: Patricia King
: Unoffendable Love Study Guide A life-transforming study to establish the flow of God's goodness in your l
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UNOFFENDABLE LOVE Study Guide reveals the causes and damaging consequences of offense that are affecting the health and well-being of individuals, marriages, families, churches, workplaces, and entire regions and nations. This course will teach you how to be free from this trap of darkness so that you can live a better way - a way that will accelerate the flow of God's goodness in and through your life! In the eye-opening study of Unoffendable Love, you will be invited to joyfully embrace a life that is saturated in the power of God's love, freedom, and healing. The Unoffendable Love Study Guide is based on Live Unoffendable book. It contains study outlines for each lesson and can be used for both personal study and group study in homes, churches, and other situations.

Session One


OFFENDABLE? NOT ME!


 

INTRODUCTION:Called to A LOVE War

During a season of intense opposition for my Christian beliefs, the Lord called me to a “Love War.” This call to war demanded that I position my heart in love toward all who were treating me unfairly. I was called to use love as a powerful weapon amid the battle. That season worked in me a deep, lifetime commitment to love. Learning to love became my primary pursuit in life.

Life is full of opportunities to overcome maltreatment with love. You probably are aware of an opportunity or two you are facing right now even. Imagine what the world would like, if we all chose to love one another well. What a wonderful world that would be!

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A.Love: Our Greatest Aim

1 Corinthians 14:1 (TLB)

Let love be your greatest aim.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

As we see in the scriptures above, we are to make love our greatest aim, and if we do not have love, we have nothing, we are nothing, and we profit nothing. In other words, we can be known for outstanding benevolent acts, operate in mountain-moving faith, and be successful and fruitful in our careers and earthly pursuits, but if we don’t have love, it is all in vain and void of eternal value. Love is the key. Love is the foundation that we are to build life on, for God is love. If we are building our life on God, we are building it on love.

In my love journey, I used the attributes of love that Paul disclosed in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 as my plumbline. Love is:

1. Patient

2. Kind

3. Not jealous

4. Not proud or arrogant

5. Does not act rudely

6. Not selfish or self-seeking

7. Not provoked or offended

8. Does not hold grudges

9. Does not keep track of wrongs

10. Does not rejoice in unrighteousness

11. Rejoices in truth

12. Bears all things

13. Believes all things

14. Endures all things

I wish I could testify that I have fulfilled my love pursuit, but I have NOT! In fact, the more I gaze upon Love Himself (God), the more I see how much I fa