Make Love the Measure of Maturity

Emotionally Healthy Relationships 

Make Love the Measure of Maturity

Chris Honess, Lead Pastor

September 27, 2026

Love of God AND Love of others cannot be separated.

Jesus replied: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:37-39

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

John 15:12

(Series Memory Verse)

It’s so much easier to love God than love others.

Then the Lord said to him, “Now then, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Luke 11:39

With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeliness

James 3:9

Real impact is rooted in love for one another.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last-and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:16-17

Start with slowing down and being present.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched-this we proclaim concerning the Word of life … We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:1, 3

Action Step: I will join The Vineyard Church for the Emotionally Healthy Relationships Course.