Growing Strong in Love
Today's Three-minute Bible Study
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Title: Growing Strong in
Love
--------------- Date: 03/26/1999
Keywords: "love" "discernment"
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the face of sexual temptation.
Passage: Philippians
1:9*
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in
real knowledge and all discernment.
Questions
1. In this verse, the apostle Paul prays for Christians. Put in your
own words what Paul is praying here.
2. Paul implies that these Christians for whom he is praying are
already loving people. What in this verse would lead you to that conclusion?
3. Paul addresses the issues of the quantity and
the quality of love in this verse. What words in this verse bring quantity growth to your
mind? What "quality" words do you find in this verse?
Practical help
The Great Commandment of Jesus is that His followers should love
well. (John 13:34-35) Right in line with the spirit of Jesus, Paul prays here that
Christians will love well. In this verse, Paul helps us to become people who love well.
Our love is to be of a certain quality. It is to be according to real knowledge
and it is to be discerning. How does this verse fit with the issue of
Internet porn? Like this:
A big piece of the attraction of pornography lies in its falseness. It is sex without
touching; intimacy without the danger of vulnerability; "love" without real
knowledge. Like all counterfeit experiences, an encounter with a sexual image on a
computer screen is unsatisfying in the extreme. What we are looking for is love
based on real knowledge. To break the stranglehold of pornography, pursue
love (not sex) with a real person.
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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright
The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by
permission."