Oakwood Church

To follow Jesus is to follow His law of Love

“My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.”
James 2:1

What True Love Looks Like:

1. Show no Preferences for people
(wealth, gender, status, appearance, etc.)

“My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.”
James 2:1

What True Love Looks Like:

1. Show no Preferences for people
(wealth, gender, status, appearance, etc.)

“Have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?”
James 2:4

What True Love Looks Like:

2. Value everyone

“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom?”
James 2:5

“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
light from the shadow shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
crownless again shall be king.”
- Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

What True Love Looks Like:

2. Value everyone

“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom?”
James 2:5

What True Love Looks Like:

2. Value everyone

“Has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?”
James 2:5

What True Love Looks Like:

2. Value everyone

“But you have dishonored the poor man.”
James 2:6

What True Love Looks Like:

3. Speak and Act with Compassion

“If you really fulfill the royal law… ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself,’ you are doing well.”
James 2:8

What True Love Looks Like:

3. Speak and Act with Compassion

“But if you show partiality you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.”
James 2:9

What True Love Looks Like:

3. Speak and Act with Compassion

“For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one points has become guilty of all of it.”
James 2:10

What True Love Looks Like:

3. Speak and Act with Compassion

“So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.”
James 2:12

What True Love Looks Like:

3. Speak and Act with Compassion

“For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
James 2:13

To follow Jesus is to follow His law of Love

What True Love Looks Like:

1. Show no Preferences for people

2. Value everyone

3. Speak and act with Compassion