The Journey - St. Louis

Pastor Darrin tells us what Paul is really saying in 1 Corinthians 13, how it relates to our relationships and marriages, and why cultural misconceptions often distort our approach to love. We encourage you to invite friends throughout this highly practical and socially relevant series.
It's no secret that the "love" most often portrayed in modern culture is sexual, romantic, and conveyed as something we "just feel". We also know that God created sex for our pleasure. Yet, when we investigate, we see that sex and romance are rarely associated with love in the Bible. Jesus, in fact, describes love (for God and one another) as the necessary action if we're to attempt to live out the greatest commandment, while the apostle Paul makes clear that, without love, even the gifts of the Holy Spirit can be rendered ineffective:
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing" [1 Corinthians 13:1-3].