God is Love - Relational Love

Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Bridgetown Church

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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1 John 4V7-12 with Bethany Allen At the center of our faith is this stunning reality: God is love (1 John 4v8). This means that love isn’t just something God does—it’s who he is. Out of this very nature, God created life and sent his Son into the world. He did not do this in response to our love for him, but because he first loved us (1 John 4v9–10). As followers of Jesus, we are invited to receive that love deeply and let it shape our whole lives. https://bridgetown.church/teaching

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0:00.0	Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
0:16.9	Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
0:20.9	Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
0:25.9	This is how God showed his love among us.
0:28.9	He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him.
0:34.6	This is love.
0:36.0	Not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an
0:40.3	atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
0:48.4	No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives on us and his love is made complete in us.
0:56.5	This is the word of the Lord.
0:58.4	Thanks for God.
1:03.7	She was small, barely five feet tall, a slip of a woman in a threadbare sari edged in sky blue.
1:14.6	Her name was Teresa, but to the streets of Calcutta, she was simply mother.
1:21.6	Reporters would later write that her presence changed the very air around her. Those who walked beside her said
1:29.4	she moved slowly, not from a lack of urgency, but because love, true love, never hurries.
1:38.2	She never set out to be a saint. She didn't aim for fame or legacy or reverence. She was simply a woman who in her summation said,
1:49.0	yes, to God and to his love.
1:53.0	Yes, her, yes, that's what made the world pay attention.
1:59.0	People said that love had taken on human shape, stooped low, kneeling in alleyways, gathering
2:06.4	the sick, comforting the dying, and holding hands that others wouldn't touch.
2:12.3	Her love didn't keep its distance.
2:14.7	Instead, it moved towards others and then stayed. It broke down walls instead of building
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