Sacrifices of a Burden Bearer

• Opening - What is the most loving act you have experienced from another person?
• Read 1 John‬ ‭3:16-18‬
• What stands out to you from this passage? 
• Why is Christ’s death on the cross the key example of love (v16)? In what practical ways might we ‘lay down our lives’ for each other?
• Why is it that not helping a brother or sister with material possessions equates one to not having God’s love in them (v17)? 
• What does it mean to love with actions and in truth (v18)?
• How do these verses impact our understanding of what love is? How does this kind of love differ from the way our culture understands love today?
• Challenge - John provides one very practical way to love one another: meet the material needs of other believers (v17). This week prayerfully ask God to show you an individual or family whose material needs you can meet.