Amen and amen. How we doing church? Everybody all right? Good. You're looking good. Thanks for braving the elements to make it here today. If you got your Bible, grab them. We're going to be in 1 Peter chapter 4. First Peter chapter 4 as we continue this series about what it means to love our neighbor. Today we're going to talk about love accepts.

Love accepts.

And if I do this thing rightly,

then everybody here should be offended by the time we leave here today.

So it's probably good.

There's a monsoon out there to keep all the wimpy Christians away.

So the real varsity folks are here to just be offended.

So that's good. So the reason over the next several weeks we are here to just be offended. So that's good.

So the reason over the next several weeks we're going to talk about what love is,

because last week we answered the question, who is my neighbor?

And like you've already heard, Jesus says, that's the wrong question,

because that kind of, that tries to limit the scope of the love of God.

And the answer is to be neighborly to whoever God puts in our path.

But then the question is, what does it mean to love?

Because in our culture, the way we use love needs some definition, right?

I mean, in Greek, there are four different unique words for love.

And in English, we only have one word for love.

And so what is love? I mean, we say things like, I love

tacos, and I love the Jaguars, and I love God, and I love my wife. And so hopefully those are very

distinct types of love. And also, we live in a world that needs to hear what love is. I mean, as polarized as we are today, what better opportunity

has the church had in a long, long time to put on display the glory of God by the way that we

are the experts and the leaders in what it means to love one another. And so we're going to talk

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