1. Give an example of the way that “knowledge”—especially spiritual knowledge—“puffs up.” How does love teach us to handle knowledge differently?
  2. What might it look like for you occasionally to give up your “rights”—especially your Christian freedoms—out of love for someone else?

 

Truly, where there is not that thorough knowledge of God which humbles us, and teaches us to do good to the brethren, it is not so much knowledge, as an empty notion of it, even in those that are reckoned the most learned. 

John Calvin

 

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.

Isaac Watts

 

If we want proof of God’s love for us, then we must look first at the Cross where God offered up His Son as a sacrifice for our sins. Calvary is the one objective, absolute, irrefutable proof of God’s love for us.

Jerry Bridges

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