About 40 Days of Love

25 Apr to 30 May 2010
A 6 week study on how we can build healthy relationships

40 Days of Love is all about building healthy relationships. It is a completely new church-wide, six-week personal growth emphasis featuring a group-based DVD study series taught by Pastor Rick Warren, with daily devotional readings from The Relationship Principles of Jesus book by Pastor Tom Holladay, and an accompanying series of weekend messages.

What is your #1 goal in life? Your answer to this question will reveal your dominant life value. Everyone has one, and this is what we unconsciously base our decisions on!

God tells us that our dominant life value is love. Because God is love, and because he created you to love you, he wants you to learn to love too. Learning to love is the #1 lesson God intends for you to learn here on earth. Life is the school of love. Jesus once said that the entire Bible can be summed up in two commands: Love God with all your heart and love you neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37-39)

On the Sunday of 25th April, our church will begin a six-week focus on these two commands. That’s when we will come together for 40 Days of Love. With conflict, divorce, violence, prejudice, abuse, division, and polarization around us daily, it is obvious we all need some lesson in building healthy relationships, and that is what 40 Days of Love is all about.

Just like last year’s 40 DOC, we will encourage every care groups in our church to go through 40 Days of Love together. And for those who are not in a care group, we will try to fit them into one or form new groups if necessary. In doing so, all of us can be a part of what will happen in our church these forty days.

We pray that this study of what the Bible says about love will bring a revival of love to our relations! We were made for relationships. The more we learn how to love authentically, the more like Jesus we become.

Following are the details of the campaign:

40 DOL committee meets for planning from 27th January.
Pre-Launch: 14th March to 11th May, Selling of books at CG / Ministry level. Forming of new CG if necessary.
Kick off: 18th April
Week 1: 25th April, “Love matters most” (Matthew 22:36-39)
Week 2: 2nd May, “Loving like Jesus loves me” (John 13:15, 34)
Week 3: 9th May, “Loving with your words” (James 3:2a)
Week 4: 16th May, “Love is forgiving” (1 Corinthians 13:5)
Week 5: 23rd May, “Love is not easily angered” (Proverbs 29:11, 22)
Week 6: 30th May, “The secrets of lasting love” (1 Corinthians 13:7b)