Chapel – Love

Chapel – Love

1 – Today’s characteristic of Successful People and Successful Teams is Love.

Definition – “to seek another’s best interest at one’s personal cost.”

• The most successful people love their families.
• The most successful people love their coworkers.
• The most successful people love their teammates.
• The most successful people love their careers.
• The most successful teams/companies/organizations love each other.
• They seek the others’ best interest at their own cost.

2 – Here are some questions we should consider.

• Will such love characterize our team?
• On a 1 to 10 scale, how much do you love your teammates?
• What costs would you be willing to pay to see your team achieve everything of which is it capable?

3 – We find a powerful description of this kind of unconditional, sacrificial love in the

Bible at I Corinthians 13:4-8a. (Read the text aloud.)

4 – There are three big ideas here:

• How love is expressed toward others.
• Patient and kind.
• Not jealous / bragging / arrogant.
• Will you be patient and kind toward your teammates or will you be jealous of them, brag about yourself and arrogantly put others down?
• How love is expressed in values.
• Love does not act unbecomingly.  It is respectful.
• Love does not seek its own.  It is selfless.
• Love is not provoked.  It is under control.
• Love does not hold a grudge.  It is forgiving.
• Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness.  It is pleased when people do the right thing.
• Will your heart-felt values find expression in ways that bring the best out of your teammates?
• How love is expressed in absolute terms.
• Love bears all things.  It perseveres in adversity.
• Love believes all things.  It sees the potential in others.
• Love hopes all things.  It expects the best from others.
• Love endures all things.  It refuses to quit on others.
• Love never fails.  Never, it is always the right thing to do.

5 – When I say, “I love you.” This is exactly what I mean.

• When your coaches say they love you, this is what they mean.
• When the Lord Jesus whispers, “I love you,” in your ear, this is what He means.