Summary of March 23 Care Group

Thanks to Doug and Sue we enjoyed some great berry pie! And thanks to Susan and Gary, as always, for the great meeting place!

We began with the following scriptures:
IJohn 4:19 "We love because he first loved us."
Romans 5:1-5 "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
John 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
These verses show the foundation of how we are to fulfill Jesus' command to "love one another" as fruit of his work in our hearts. We also discussed how we see this work happening in our spouses because marriage is the fertile ground of the love of God. We should witness the love of God from our spouses toward others as well as those in the home.