Gods Love Castholic

Gods Love Castholic

God Creates Good

• Even though the world is in disorder, what God creates is Good.

• God created man in His image

• As such, we are meant to be in a relationship with the eternal

• After we turned away from god, God did not turn away from us.

• This is Gods Love for us

God is Present

• God is not indefferent to us, God Loves us

• God wants a relationship with us

• God created us to be with us, not to abandon us

Multiple Choice

God created all things

• Bad

• Out of necessity

• Good

• Out of need

Multiple Choice

God is _______ in our daily lives

• Present

• Watching

• Instructing

• Leading

Gods Plan

• We can only understand ourselves perfectly if we first understand Gods desires

• God has a plan to bring us back to perfection

• This plan shows his love for us and His creation

• Christ is the Fullness of Gods Love

• This is Gods plan, for us to follow His son

Made in His image

• As humans made in the image of God we should strive to love like God

• Distrust, Envy, hate, and separation are all products of the fall

• We should Love on another

• Love is not always easy

Multiple Choice

_____ is the fullness of Gods Love for us

• Adam

• Eve

• Creation

• Jesus

What is Love?

• Love is a choice

• John 3:16 show s us Love is action

• Faith, hope and love, the greatest is Love

• Love is our new commandment given by Jesus

Multiple Choice

Gods plan for us is to

• Follow the Leader

• Be sinless

• Follow His son

• Be sorrowful

God Loves

• God loves us with an eternal Love.

• Gods love is outside of time and space

• Gods Loves all, yes even Satan

• Gods Love is never ending

• He does not run out of patience or love

Our Love

• We ae called to follow Christ

• This means to love as Christ Loved

• We should love and honor all of Gods Creation

• As Children of God we need to spread the Love of God

Multiple Choice

God Love is _______

• Great

• Full

• Eternal

• Enough

Our Love leads us to follow

• Our Love inspires us to fulfill the corporal works of mercy

• These are: Feed the Hungry, Give drink to the Thirsty, shelter the homeless, visit the sick, Visit the prisoners, bury the dead, and give to the poor

• Essentially Love thy Neighbor

Multiple Choice

Which is Not a corporal work of Mercy?

• Give to the Poor

• Feed the Hungry

• Give to the Church

• Bury the dead

Why more Rules?

• The corporal works of Mercy are not meant to be more rules but instead guidelines to help the world be a better place.

• These are given to us by the Church

• If we follow these it helps the world to be a better place.

These bring us to...

• The spiritual works of mercy

• Counseling The doubtful, instructing the ignorant, admonishing the sinner, comforting the sorrowful, forgiving others, bearing wrongs patiently, and praying for the dead

• The corporal works are what we do, these are what we think and feel.

• The spiritual works help our spirit

Multiple Choice

Which works effect what we do?

• Spiritual

• Corporal

Multiple Choice

Which works effect how we think?

• Spiritual

• Corporal

All together now

• Both of these works together shows Gods Love for us and the World

• We are made for more, following these helps us to grow as a people closer to God

• These are not meant to be binding or oppressive, but freeing in the love of God