Biology of Love III

Minister love, based on understanding

1. When you have understood the individual that you intend to minister love to, what is the final step?
2. Can you minister love to another person without sharing a piece of yourself with them? John 3:16

   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

3. Did God so love the world that he said "I love you?"
4. Did God so love the world that he felt sad for the world?
5. Does God want you to love the whole world, in words, or one human a day, in deed?
6. What are some pieces of yourself that you can share with the people that you intend to love?
7. When you teach another person, do you lose what you have taught?
8. In what ways can you share your time with others?
9. In what ways can you share your money or the fruit of your hard work with others?
10. In what ways can you share your prayer with others?
11. When you pray for another person, are you sending God on an errand?
12. In what ways does praying for another person enable God to minister his love to the person through you?
13. In what ways can you share compliments with others?
14. When you compliment others are you putting yourself above others, or pushing yourself to the background so that another person can also shine?
15. In what ways can you celebrate with others, knowing very well that you had rather be the one being celebrated?
16. In what ways can you share gifts with others?
17. In what ways can you minister love to other people, based on how you understand them?
18. In what ways can you minister love to a child?
19. In what ways can you minister love to a baby?
20. In what ways can you minister love to your parents?
21. In what ways can you minister love to your grandparents or the aged in your community?
22. In what ways can you minister love to your friends?
23. In what ways can you minister love to those who do not like you?
24. In what ways does praying for others, help you to find ways through which you can minister love to them?
25. Your baby brother and yourself, who needs more love from your parents?
26. What is the reason for your answer?
27. Your sick sister and your healthy mother, who needs more love from your father?
28. What is the reason for your answer?
29. The people who like you, and the people who do not like you, who need more love from you?
30. What is the reason for your answer?
31. Should you love everyone equally, or love as much as is needed by each individual?
32. What is the reason for your answer?
33. The people who like you and the people who do not like you, who should you show more love to?
34. What is the reason for your answer?
35. The people that are more difficult to love, and the people that are easy to love, who needs more love from you?
36. What is the reason for your answer?
37. When you have helped in paying the school fees of another child, do you care if they fail their exams or not?
38. What is the reason for your answer?
39. Can you pray for someone every day, and wish ill upon them, at the same time?
40. Does sharing a piece of yourself with others make it easier for you to minister love to them?
41. What is the reason for your answer?
42. In what way can you minister love to a person whom you simply don't like, and do not know why?
43. What is a rebuke?
44. When a person is going wayward and you do not rebuke them, do you love them?
45. In what ways can you rebuke a friend when they start going wayward?
46. Does God rebuke Man when they go wayward?
47. How did Christ rebuke pride in his disciples? Luke 9:46-48

    46 An argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest. 47 Jesus, knowing their thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him. 48 Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”

48. How did Christ rebuke the sellers at the temple? Matthew 21:12-13

    12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.”

49. Get a book and name it your "Love Book". In it, every day, write down how you ministered love to one individual, following the steps outlined:
    1. Understanding: What did you do to understand them and what did you understand about them?
    2. Ministered love: How did you minister love to them, through understanding?
    3. Outcome: Were your actions interpreted as love? What challenges did you face, and how did you overcome them? What could you have done better?