Love is Above All

In this sermon on 1 Corinthians 13, Paul’s teaching on love is explored in its original context: a divided church valuing spiritual gifts while neglecting the spiritual fruit of love. The passsage explains that tongues, prophecy, faith, generosity, and sacrifice are ultimately empty if they are not empowered by love. Love is presented not as a feeling, but as a deliberate choice marked by patience, kindness, humility, forgiveness, truth, endurance, and sacrifice. Also emphasized is that the fruit of the Spirit must be valued above the gifts of the Spirit, and that believers grow in love by pursuing God through prayer, Scripture, fellowship, and obedience.