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A Christ-like love is characterized by making decisions that benefit others, understanding others' emotions, generosity without concern for cost, acceptance of others regardless of appearance or health, patience, forgiveness, self-care as well as care for others, and willingness to suffer for the sake of love without denial of its meaning. The cross symbolizes the ultimate expression of Christ-like love through self-sacrifice.

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A Christ-like love is characterized by making decisions that benefit others, understanding others' emotions, generosity without concern for cost, acceptance of others regardless of appearance or health, patience, forgiveness, self-care as well as care for others, and willingness to suffer for the sake of love without denial of its meaning. The cross symbolizes the ultimate expression of Christ-like love through self-sacrifice.

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 A Christ-like love is not just an emotion, it is also a decision.

 A Christ-like love desires what is best for others.


 A Christ-like love understands and accepts the emotions of others, rejoicing with those
who rejoice and weeping with those who weep.
 A Christ-like love is generous and does not calculate the cost of giving.
 A Christ-like loves is not repulsed by illness and ugliness.
 A Christ-like love is patient and forgiving.
 A person with a Christ-like love takes time for him or herself as well as for others.
 A Christ-like love does not suffer needlessly but neither does it run from suffering when
running would be a denial of love.
 The cross is a symbol of Christ-like love.

First:
You must have the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, will all your mind and will
your strength.

Second:
You must love your neighbour as yourself.
Jesus lived out his love by giving up his own life for us.
The religion of Christians is about love, equating God with love itself.

Knowledge of the person: attempt to understand the other person in depth.


Flexibility: able to respond to change in the person we love and shifts in the relationship.
Patience: we hang in there with the person through difficult times.
Honesty: to be genuine in our caring and do not put on masks to pretend we are something
we are not.
Trust: we let go of our concern about constantly protecting our own interests in a
relationship so that the other person can grow.
Trustworthiness: we can live up to the other person’s trust in us.
Humility: treat each other with dignity and respect, we recognize that we are all human
beings with flaws and limitations.
Courage: have the courage to face the unknown – rejections, conflict, and separation.
Forgiveness: we do not hold the other person’s hurtful behaviour or wrongdoing over
his/her head. We talk about it.

Philios:
Brotherly love, like the love siblings have.

Eros:
Passionate love.
Physical attraction between the sexes.
Agape:
Self-sacrificing love.
Represented by Jesus’ selfless act on the cross.

Seeing – What decision needs to made?


Who will this decision affect?
Is this a moral decision?
Does this decision have anything to do with loving God, loving myself, or loving others?
Ask God to help us see with loving eyes.

Judging – Looking at options.


Analyze all options and evaluate which options would truly be a loving choice.
Judging means calling on our conscience, and considering what the Bible says, what the church
teaches and our parents too.

Acting – Doing the act.


Deciding to do the loving thing and then doing it, it is important to ask God to help us put our
decisions into action.

Evaluating: Reflecting on the decision you made.


We must be aware of how that decision has affected our relationships with God, with ourselves
and with others.
We must emphasize with others, be able to put ourselves in their shoes.

Conscience:
Conscience is deep within us.
Our conscience tells us “Do good, avoid evil.”
It is the voice of God within us.
It is the truth of God and his plan for us.
Our conscience must be properly formed for us to love others like Jesus did.
Listening and understanding are most important in following are conscience.
Listening can be simple as praying and taking a quiet moment to talk to God.
Scripture can help us to understand Gods plan for us.

The Church Teaches:


God created us as sexual beings.
The church doesn’t object to sex, it in fact says it is so wonderful and so powerful that it should
be experienced in the married relationship only.
The church sees sex as a necessary and important part of marriage.
That procreation is a very important gift we have been given.
Sexual relationships are ultimately designed to ensure that the world will go on.
We are one of the only species that has sex for both pleasure and procreation.
Sex is not just a general activity. Great sex requires good communication and giving and
receiving with mutual respect and trust which comes from full commitment.
We may love many people in our life time, but we should only be intimate with someone we
have committed to in marriage.

S – Social: activities, family, socialization, meeting new people, places to go, things to do.
P – Physical: height, eye colour, body type, hair colour, bone structure, traits, physical fitness,
eating habits.
I – Intellectual: thinking/developing ideas, interests/hobbies goals, reading habits,
educational/career dreams.
E –Emotional: how I feel, how I react, how I act, how I deal with feelings, temperament,
attitudes, choices.
S – Spiritual: prayer life, outreach, church participation, reflection, contemplations, inner peace,
gratitude.

Chasity is defined as using sexuality the God intended (which resolves around self-control).
This involves three things:
1. Closeness
2. Pleasure
3. Openness to procreation
Every human is being called to chastity.
It requires training in human freedom.
Single and married people are called to be chaste.
Single – not having sex until you are married.
Married – controlling your sexual urges.

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