John 3: 16-18 Analysis

Improved Essays
As I meditate on 1 John 3:16-18 the central principle I feel shown is that sacrificial love is a love of action. The author is John, son of Zebedee who is one of the original twelve apostles. He wrote this letter to believers who struggled with false teachers trying to teach them in ways that were not what Jesus taught His followers. John needed to remind them that love, as shown to us by Christ, should spur the believer into action. Jesus so loved all that He became the final sacrifice for sin. In doing so, He demonstrated a genuine meaning of sacrificial love and the action it should inspire in believers.
Scripture is rich with examples of love moving a believer to action. Typically, the biblical author expressed this action as helping the needy. From the Old Testament to
…show more content…
Many years ago God placed a family on my heart. The sons of the family were members of a Boy Scout troop in which I was one of the adult leaders. This family contained only a single parent, the two boys, and a younger girl. This girl became ill and needed hospitalization. The doctors discovered breathing problems which the family found were due to the exposed horsehair plaster in her bedroom. Her room had holes in her ceiling exposing beams on the roof and causing her issues. The apartment they were living in was all they could afford. So with the permission of the landlord, a team of people and I renovated her bedroom removing all of the plaster and putting up sheetrock. All construction materials and time came from the team out of love for this family. Everyone gave of what they had so this girl, now a married woman with children of her own could have a healthier environment in which to grow up. While the landlord did not help with the cost of the repairs or in the renovating of the girl's room, even he gave by freezing their rent amount for the remaining five years they were in the apartment before finally moving somewhere

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Christ shows sacrificial love in a huge way. He shows this…

    • 799 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, discusses love throughout but particularly in chapters six, seven, and nine. Lewis talks about how Christians are to practice love through marriage, through forgiving, and through charity. By discussing how Christians are to practice love in these three sense, he also gives a picture of what love/Christ-like love is in his view. His view is different in many ways from other popular secular and religious depictions of love. His love is different than just being in love, specifically within marriage.…

    • 971 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    New Millennium Ideology

    • 1536 Words
    • 7 Pages

    No other reason can explain why “God reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 5:18 NLT).” Likewise, the anthem that continuously peals from the Bible is that “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son (John 3:16 NLT).” And yet, this does not mean that God loves us considering Christ died for us. Rather, Christ died for us considering God loves us.…

    • 1536 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Introduction The aim and purpose of this reply will be evaluate Mr. Tullis’ analytical content inspection of both the models and the issues of resources, analyze the overall quality of a reply, and provide an alternative biblical principle for the purpose of bringing greater clarity to the issues under discussion. Scriptural analysis will provided the foundation for the discussion of an extended biblical principle. While, the author of this reply will utilize scholarly resources to validate the contest findings of the work and provide positive feedback on Mr. Tullis’ thread. Analysis of Content…

    • 799 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My home had been a broken place for many years and my mother had alienated almost every family member. Her manipulation and control had come to an extent that it was hurting herself and others. My Junior year, my parents suddenly uprooted my family and moved to Texas to receive marriage counseling. The firm footing I thought was mine was ripped out from under my feet and I became hopeless as my mother informed me that moving with the family was what God demanded of me. The constant twisting of scripture that been used to control me all my life was being used again.…

    • 448 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The Holocaust is the systematic, bureaucratic, state- wide persecution and murder of over 6 million Jews. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, they convinced Germans that they were superior, and Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Slavic and disabled people were inferior. The Nazis believe that white people with blond hair and blue eyes are racially superior. All other coloured people, especially Africans, are not worthy enough be in their sight.…

    • 1027 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    John 15: 2 Analysis

    • 2716 Words
    • 11 Pages

    Introduction Introduction This paper will discuss the interpretation of John 15:2. In this chapter, Jesus preached to His disciples a discourse about Himself as the True Vine; His Father is the Vinedresser, and the disciples are the branches. In verse 2, Jesus taught the disciples the consequences to the branch that does bear fruit and to the branch that does not bear fruit. To the branch that was fruitful, the Father will prunes so that it may produce more fruits.…

    • 2716 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Honduras Mission Journey

    • 960 Words
    • 4 Pages

    My first mission trip was for an organization called 1Nation1Day through my church, Milestone, back home in 2013. The goal was to save the nation of Honduras in one day and continue to pour out love and support to the Hondurans so that they may be disciples for a lifetime. To prepare for the mission we spent the majority of the year 2012 fundraising to provide clothes, shoes, and meals for the Hondurans and were grateful enough to raise $250,000.00. Applications for the mission trip were sent out and anyone could go as long as they could pay for the trip, which cost $3275.00. While fundraising for Honduras I was also working at Subway as well as fundraising for my self through care packages that would be sent to the people of Honduras.…

    • 960 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    And only God possess perfect love because He is love (1 John 4:8). Being created in the image of God, we also possess love but made imperfect and conditional through the “Fall.” In order to understand the imperfect condition of our hearts, that reflects love or hatred, we must face the reality of…

    • 1350 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    John 6 1-14 Analysis

    • 1285 Words
    • 6 Pages

    John 6:1-14 serves as a “reminiscent of the miraculous feeding through Moses” during the wandering in the wilderness “following their exodus from Egypt and preceding their entrance into the promised land” (Exodus 16:4-36), events commemorated by the Passover feast (Heil, 53). In John 6:1-14, Jesus feeds a crowd of about five thousand (6:10) with the overabundance of bread and fish (6:5-13) when the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near (6:4). All the events of John 6 are placed in a Passover context (6:4). The fact that a large crowd of people was following Jesus and seeing the signs He was performing on the sick (6:2) tells readers of the further signs: the theme of believing in Jesus as the sacrificial Passover lamb of God central to…

    • 1285 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The theme of love lies at the heart of the Fourth Gospel, pervading every aspect of the book. The Synoptic Gospels focus on the theme as well, but in John’s Gospel Jesus directs his disciples to love God and their neighbor, based on Deuteronomy 6:4–5 and Leviticus 19:18. In John’s Gospel, Jesus’s only command for his disciples is to love one another (15:12), and he assures the reader that God loves those who keep his commandments (14:21, 23). John points to Jesus’s death as an example of the type of love that Jesus expects his disciples to have (cf. 3:16; 15:13). Love in the Gospel of John argues that to understand John’s concept of love requires understanding more than what Jesus taught in the Gospel.…

    • 719 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    As I venture into my field placement, I have no reluctance to serve in any settings and/or with any population. I have learned through my 24 years in the human services field to expect the unexpected and be prepared for anything. I take things that are unfamiliar to me as an opportunity to learn and experience something new. At this time there are no personal issues that would impact my choice for a practicum site, and I have no previous, existing, or continuing health/medical conditions or other issues that would impact my placement. I have chosen the social work profession as my career choice because I have spent over half of my life serving others in a variety of positions.…

    • 1370 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Everybody desires to be loved by others, and sometimes love can change a person. The Bible tells us that we are supposed to love others. People sometimes say that they love one another, but they are not always right because love is much more than just having feelings for one another. The Bible says that love is patient and kind. It also says that love does not envy, boast, dishonor others and that love is not proud.…

    • 393 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Matthew 13: 1-2 Analysis

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages

    When crowds are large, it gets loud and harder to hear, but when Jesus is the speaker, people become silent and it’s effortless to hear, even still they do not listen to the wisdom of God. “Though hearing they do not hear or understand.” Matthew and mark are parables that are common with each other in the Gospels. They talk about Jesus in a large crowds and how people will not listen to Jesus even with silence. God put these parables out for us, so that we could understand his spiritual lessons through his stories in the bible.…

    • 1228 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Gospel of John is one of the four Gospels written to tell the story of Jesus’ life. Just as Matthew, Mark, and Luke have given their accounts of Jesus’ miracles so has John. Though these accounts may have their own way of telling what is important to them, the main fact is that these Gospels were recorded so that we may learn more of the word of God. “In order to understand John’s approach to the story of Jesus, the reader must recognize the centrality of the incarnation of the Gospel” (NIB 1905). The book of John begins, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).…

    • 812 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays