Over the last two Sunday nights I have been preaching on “putting on” love and “pursuing” love based upon 1 Corinthians 13 and 14. I had a friend point me in the direction of a “Daily Love Dare” at www.familylife.com It seems to be something based on a book, Love Dare, and the movie Fireproof. Admittedly, I have never read the book or watched the movie, (I have heard good feedback and read good reviews about the storyline of the movie) I don’t even know much about the familylife website.
All that said, the first days challenge for the Daily Love Dare got me thinking about what we have been looking at on Sunday evenings. So, here is the challenge:
Love Dare – Day 1
Resolve to say nothing negative about your spouse today.
Ephesians 4:2
First, try it with your spouse or family and see if you have developed negative, unloving, unkind, ungentle habits. Now take that dare and apply it to the church body:
Resolve to say nothing negative about your church next Lord’s day.
It will be interesting to find out how many negative things you actually say to and about others in just one day, and that day is the one day when you are supposed to be focused the most on being in one Spirit and in harmony. Come on, I double dog dare you!
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Andy,
My wife & I saw Fireproof over the holidays, and we really enjoyed the film. Some of the supporting actors were sub-par, but the main characters, story line, and even the well crafted action and humor scenes were superb.
I appreciate your exhortation to apply this “love dare” to the church…although I think it should have been a TRIPLE dog dare.
Jeremiah