Welcome to FV's #LoveChallenge! We're in a season of stretching and challenging ourselves to "Step Up" to the next level in our faith, so during the month of February, we're going to challenge ourselves to love the people around us better than ever before!

Jesus said the whole of the law and prophets boils down to 2 things: Love God, and Love People.  Follow along in this challenge, and begin to think about new ways that YOU can love people in everyday life.

WEEK FOUR

Our focus for this week is Romans 12:9-15.  Write out this passage, word for word, and really let it sink into your soul.  

• Are there any ways that you are pretending to love others, instead of actually loving them?

• Are there any areas that you are lazy with love?

• Are you returning curses for curses in any area?

#LoveChallenge

Pick a few of these challenges...try to do one every day!

• Pull someone aside and encourage them genuinely.

• Spend 10 minutes in dedicated prayer for your spouse or someone close to you.

• Grab someone in your office/work place coffee or lunch.

• Call or FaceTime a long-distance friend or family member.

• Invite a nonbeliever to an Easter service, in the most loving & kind way you can think of!

• When someone is rude to you, think of a way that you can love them back.

• Try to hold a whole conversation completely about the other person, and really listen!

• Stick around after your shift is over at work, and look for something you can do to make someone else's job easier.

• Make a list of ways that you can show GOD love, and do them!

WEEK THREE

This week, I want to focus on just two verses.  Meditate on them every day this week, write it down, put it on your fridge, put it in your car...whatever you have to do to keep it in front of you!  

Answer, for yourself, the following questions:

• How does Jesus love? How did he love those he encountered in his time?

• How do we combat the common complaint about Christians that we're unkind and judgemental to people?

• If we don't love each other, what does that say about us?

#LoveChallenge

Pick a few of these challenges...try to do one every day!

• Encourage someone who is working hard.

• Leave a 60% tip.

• Pray for a "word" over someone and give it to them.

• Sit down next to a stranger and give them a compliment.

• Give blood.

• Keep an extra umbrella handy to give out when it rains.

• Volunteer to walk dogs at the SPCA.

• Ask someone for their advice.

WEEK TWO

This week, read Romans 8.  Read it with new eyes, as if you've never read it before.  Read it as if you're trying to understand your place in the world, and how you relate to God.

• Does knowing your place in the universe--your relationship to God--change any perspectives for you?

• How can you tell the people around you how much God loves them?

• Try a SOAP Study this week on this chapter.  Click here to find out how!

WEEK ONE

This week, read 1 Corinthians 13, the love chapter!  Try to think about ways to apply it to your life, ways you can be better at loving those around you!

• Are you patient and kind to the people around you? Where do you struggle with this the most?

• How can you go about putting away childish things in your life?

• Try a selfishness fast this week.  Do it for at least a day!  Anytime you have a selfish though, reject it, and do the opposite.  See what happens in your life, and what you learn about yourself!