Love Your Neighbor as

Yourself

7 Practical Tips
• What does the Bible say about loving
your neighbor? What does the Bible
say about loving people at all?
1. Pornea – selfish cravings dealing
with lust
2. Phileo – brother love
3. Agape – unconditional love

3 Types of Love
 Seven Practical
Tips

Mark 12:31
Thou shalt love thy neighbour thyself
• In Matthew 22:36-39, a Pharisee asked Jesus, “Teacher,
which is the great commandment in the Law?” And Jesus
said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your
mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a
second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.”

1. The Greatest
Commandment
• Jesus did not spend His time
around the saved, but the
unsaved.

2. Seek Out Your Neighbor

• Jesus ate with tax collectors
• He talked with prostitutes
• He spent time with the sick.

He spent time with them because He

loved them unconditionally. We have to
put pride and our reputations down at
the cross if we want to truly love others.
• Romans 12:14 says, bless those who
persecute you; bless and do not curse
them.

3. Bless Those Who

Persecute You
• People feel love when it is really
expressed. “I love you,” is a very
common phrase.

4. Be Real
• . Sometimes it is better to
do something that says, “I
love you” than saying it.
• With interaction comes
connection. With connection
comes a bond.

The interaction is really

where true love is
expressed.
• With sacrifice comes
remembrance.

5. Sacrifice
• . You will always feel like someone cares
for you when they genuinely listen to
you. Listening is a conscious choice you
have to make. James 1:19 says, be quick to
hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.

6. Be a Good Listener
• While respecting someone’s
boundaries, they will be more inclined
to converse and they will be much
more receptive to what we have to
say.

7. Respect The Boundaries

• The Greatest
• Be Real
Commandment
• Sacrifice
• Seek out your
neighbour • Be a Good Listener
• Bless Those who • Respect The
Persecute you Boundaries

7 Practical tips
Feed the Good Wolf
• In order to really focus on loving others,
we have to constantly be aware of how
much Jesus loves us by how He laid His
life down for us on the cross. When we are
thankful for Him, we can really express the
love needed to plant the seed into an
unbeliever’s heart. I pray that we all can
learn daily how to love even more then
yesterday.