Faith to be Loved

1 John Chapter 4

1. Testing spirits (v.1): What voices, teachings, influencers, or inner impulses do you trust without testing because they affirm your desires instead of confronting your sin?

2. False confession (v.2–3): In what ways do you verbally affirm Jesus while living in patterns that deny His authority over your body, relationships, or choices?

3. Cultural Christianity (v.5): Where does your worldview sound more like culture, trauma, or social media than like Scripture and how does that excuse your behavior?

4. Selective listening (v.6): What biblical truths do you resist or ignore because accepting them would require repentance or surrender?

5. Redefining love (v.7–8): How have you redefined “love” to mean tolerance, comfort, or niceness so you don’t have to confront sin, yours or others’?

6. God’s initiating love (v.9–10): If God loved you while you were undeserving, who do you refuse to love because you believe they must earn it?

7. Invisible God, visible proof (v.12): What does the way you treat people reveal about whether God’s love is actually being perfected in you?

8. Fear exposed (v.17–18): How does fear of rejection, exposure, loss, or discomfort still control your decisions more than love does?

9. Claim vs reality (v.20): Who do you say you love God while consistently resenting, dismissing, avoiding, or speaking poorly about others?

10. Obedience test (v.21): What command to love others have you knowingly disobeyed because obedience would cost you: pride, control, or convenience?