Love In Action Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Love In Action ----------------------- Date: 06/10/1999 Keywords: "love" "words" "action" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. eXXit advertises itself as a web site designed to help you "stand strong in the face of sexual temptation." In Galatians 5:22-23, the apostle Paul lists nine "fruit of the Spirit," fruit that the Holy Spirit produces in the life of the believer. Each of these fruits - if produced - will greatly aid a believer who seeks to "stand strong". At eXXit, we believe: that the fruit of the Spirit is produced in the life of a healthy Christian, just as apples appear on a healthy apple tree; that if there is any love or joy or peace in a Christian, it is ultimately the work of God; that Christians can cooperate with the Spirit's desire to produce His fruit in their lives by yieldedness, faith, obedience and involvement in ministry. We hope you enjoy and benefit from the next month and a half's meditations on Galatians 5! Send us any feedback. We'd love to know what you think. Passage: 1 John 3:18* 18. Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. Questions 1. What is the key message of this verse?   2. How can we apply this message to our struggles with pornography?   Practical help The apostle John didn't have much truck with empty rhetoric. Talk that wasn't backed up with actions mattered little to him. Given that fact, John probably wouldn't be too impressed with how we handle pornography. We like to talk about our plans: "I'll never go to that Web site again." Or "That's the last time I'll go in that store!" But our empty promises come to pieces when we fail to live up to them. John would likely favor a more practical approach -- no talk, just action. Action like getting an accountability partner to check your back. Action like installing a porn screening device on your computer -- and making someone else enter the password. Action like logging onto this site when you feel tempted. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1999 by eXXit * Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.