How to Love

1 John chapter 3

1. Hope exposes impurity (v.2–3): What impurity do you knowingly tolerate that proves your hope is anchored more in delay than in Christ’s return?

2. Practiced sin (v.4): What sin in your life requires planning, secrecy, or justification making it a choice, not a struggle?

3. Abiding test (v.6): What behavior instantly reappears when no one is watching, revealing where you do not actually abide in Christ?

4. Spiritual allegiance (v.8): If your habits preach louder than your words, what gospel does your life proclaim and who does it glorify?

5. Resistance to exposure (v.7): What righteousness do you avoid because it would expose your relationships, finances, habits, or reputation?

6. Cain’s hatred (v.12–15): Who do you silently hope will fail, fade, or fall so you don’t have to face your own disobedience?

7. Passive harm (v.15): How do you punish others through withdrawal, silence, delay, or indifference while telling yourself you are being “wise”?

8. Love measured by cost (v.16–17): What need have you clearly seen and deliberately ignored because meeting it would inconvenience your lifestyle?

9. False reassurance (v.19–20): What sin keeps accusing your heart because you have confessed it repeatedly without ever killing it?

10. Prayer contradiction (v.21–24): What are you asking God to do for you while openly refusing what He has already told you to do?