Overview

Unearth the core of Jesus’ ministry in how we show love to the people God has placed in our lives here on earth. How can we communicate more like Jesus? How do we love our creator, our neighbors, and ourselves?

Let’s discover together a love that is patient, kind, forgiving, unselfish and always speaks the truth, all during this six-week journey into the very heart of the matter.

Jesus answered, “The most important command is this: ‘Listen, people of Israel! The Lord our God is the only Lord. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second command is this: ‘Love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ There are no commands more important than these.” –Mark 12:29-31

Components

Criteria to obtain the 40 Days of Love Church Campaign components

The 40 Days of Love components and low pricing (Available on Request)are only available to local churches doing the 40 Days of Love Church Campaign.

The whole local church is participating, not just a segment.

Every participant has his/her own original participant guide.

Orders need to be paid for before shipping.

The quantity you order cannot be reduced or returned once invoiced and shipped (why?**), but can be increased.

DVD’s may not be duplicated – see the full duplication policy here

**Walk Thru the Bible is not able to fund the large stock quantities required for consignment.

40 Days of Love Church Campaign Required Components

40 Days of Love Church Campaign Kit – free to churches doing the 40 Days of Love Church Campaign

At least one original 40 Days of Love Church Campaign Kit per local church is required.

40 Days of Love Small Group Study Guide (English)

One original 40 Days of Love Small Group Study Guide per participant is required. In this 119-page small group study guide, Rick Warren teaches that learning to love God and others is to be our highest goal, our greatest aim, our first priority, our deepest aspiration, our strongest ambition, our constant focus our passionate intention and our dominant life value. The more we learn how to love authentically, the more we become like Jesus. To be used with the accompanying video sessions, the six sessions include: Love Matters Most; Love is Patient, Love is Kind; Love Speaks the Truth; Love is Forgiving; Love Isn’t Selfish; The Habits of a Loving Heart. This guide is used along with the accompanying small group video message.

40 Dae in Doelgerigte Liefde Bybelstudie Gids (Afrikaans) 

Een oorspronklike 40 Dae in Doelgerigte Liefde Bybelstudie Gids per deelnemer word vereis. In hierdie 128-bladsy Bybelstudie gids vir groepe verduidelik Rick Warren dat ons hoogste mikpunt in die lewe moet wees om God en ons medemens lief te hê. Dit moet ons eerste prioriteit, ons sterkste ambisie, ons diepste verlange, ons voortdurende mikpunt, ons passievolle bedoeling en oorheersende waarde in die lewe wees. Hoe meer ons leer om eerlik en opreg lief te hê hoe meer sal ons soos Jesus word. Hierdie gids word saam met die bygaande kleingroep videoboodskappe gebruik.

40 Days of Love Small Group DVD (English)

One original Small Group Study DVD per small group is required. This DVD is designed to be used with the 40 Days of Love Small Group Study Guide (English) and the 40 Dae in Doelgerigte Liefde Bybelstudie Gids (Afrikaans). The 40 Days of Community Small Group DVD is only available in English, although it can be easily used in other-language groups.

40 Days of Love Church Campaign optional components

The following resources are optional additions to the 40 Days of Love Church Campaign. They can add value, but are not required for a successful 40 Days of Love campaign.

The Relationship Principles of Jesus,  Tom Holladay 

What would you give to radically improve, even transform, what matters most in your relationships? How about forty days of your time? You can thrive in your career, acquire wealth and reputation, even experience tremendous impact in your ministry. But if your relationships are languishing, nothing else matters. In forty days, bring new depth and health to your marriage, your family, and your friendships. Six weeks to explore and implement six foundational principles that Jesus taught and lived. You’ll be equipped with insights and a practical path for fulfilling God’s intention for all your relationships – even the difficult ones. Tom Hollday is a teaching pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Book, softcover, ISBN9780796311504, 336 pages.

Jesus-Beginsels vir Doelgerigte Liefde, Tom Holladay 

Jesus was goed met verhoudings. Hy is die Kenner op die gebied. Hoe oorbrug ons die gaping oor verhoudings – die gaping tussen waarop ons hoop en
wat ons begeer aan die een kant en wat in werklikheid met ons gebeur aan die ander kant? Aan die een kant van die gaping is die werklikheid van mislukte huwelike, afwesige ouers, opstandige kinders, ontroue vriende en kerkgroepe wat skinder. Aan die ander kant van hierdie gaping moet ons die woorde van Jesus in gedagte hou: “Ek gee julle ’n nuwe gebod: julle moet mekaar liefhê. Soos Ek julle liefhet, moet julle mekaar ook liefhê” (Johannes 13:34). Jesus was goed met verhoudings. Die skares het na Hom toe gestroom, sy volgelinge was mal daaroor om naby Hom te wees en selfs sy vyande het vir Hom ’n onbedoelde pluimpie gegee toe hulle Hom ’n “vriend van … sondaars” genoem het. Aan die einde van elke dag se leeswerk sal jy drie hulpmiddels kry wat jou in jou studie kan help.

Die eerste word genoem “Iets om oor na te dink”, wat die hoofstuk se boodskap in ’n sin saamvat. Tweedens is daar “’n Vers om te onthou”, wat ’n vers uit die Bybel gee wat jy kan leer. Daar is nie baie van ons wat in staat is om ’n vers vir elke dag uit die kop te leer nie, en tog sal jy op verrassende maniere geestelik verfris en versterk word as jy een of meer van die verse by elke week kan kies en memoriseer. Aan die einde van elke hoofstuk is daar ook ’n “’n Vraag om te oorweeg” – ’n persoonlike vraag wat jou sal help om jou gedagtes op handeling en verandering te fokus. Aan die einde van die boek is daar ’n lys van bykomende “Vrae vir vriendekringe, pare en kleingroepe”.

Tom Holladay is dieleraar verantwoordelik vir toerusting en lering by die Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Amerika. Hieride boek vorm ook die opsionele stiltetyd-leeswerk van die gewilde 40 Dae in Doelgerigte Liefde-veldtog vir kleingroepe. Boek, sagte band, ISBN9780796311221, 352 bladsye.