Sermon Discussion Questions 

1) To love one another as we ought is to love one another with our our all (“we ought to lay down our lives for one another,” 3:16). Where do you find yourself “holding back,” in self-protection or self-preservation in ways that are ultimately unloving? What are you afraid you will lose? 

2) How can we discern the difference between a Christ-like love that gives our whole selves up to God for the flourishing of one another, and a disordered love that sacrifices ourselves to one another, and is finally idolatrous or man-fearing? 

3) We often feel we cannot love as we ought, for lack of love in ourselves. How does 1 John 2:8 give the lie to this fear as those united to Christ by faith?