What is Storga Love?

Session 04: Friday 07.24.20

 Discuss about your past week and action items.

OPEN PRAYER


S T O R G A : (Pronounced: STOR-jay) Family Love

Family love, the affectionate bond that develops naturally between parents and children, and brothers and sisters.

Many examples of family love are found in Scripture, such as the mutual protection among Noah and his wife, the love of Jacob for his sons, and the strong love the sisters Martha and Mary had for their brother Lazarus.


The Bible Says
However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.  – Ephesians 5:33

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.  – Exodus 20:12

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. – Colossians 3:20



CS Lewis on Storge Love:


Round Table Discussion
Q: The closer and more familiar we are as families, and when disputes/misunderstandings happen, how do we reconcile to each other?

Q: What are the attitudes to take when that happens?


Action Item for the Week
Take this opportunity to reconcile and show love and forgiveness to a family member or build better and closer relationships

Continue to mingle with each other and pray for each other.


What is Eros Love?

Session 03: Friday 07.17.20

OPEN PRAYER


E R O S :  Intense sexual and passionate love
This sort of love is intense like a drug, you lose control in heat of passion, your mind could be in cloud 9, you can’t see clearly, you yearn, and wean like a love sick person, you get obsessive, or jealous, it turns your life upside down and some would die and kill for that sort of love. Wow what an incredible feeling. 




Eros was a Greek god of lust and primal sexual desire. In fact, the word erotic comes from his name. He is personified in all kinds of love and lust, both heterosexual and homosexual, and was worshiped at the center of a fertility cult that honored both Eros and Aphrodite together.

 Love in the form of Eros seeks its own interest and satisfaction (Could be selfish)—to possess the object of love. God is very clear in the Bible that eros love is reserved for marriage.



The Bible uses Eros love in a marriage for husbands and wife. Eros is the word often used to express sexual love or the feelings of arousal that are shared between people who are physically attracted to one another. Eros is used in the Old Testament to express the physical and sensual intimacy between a husband and a wife.


 The Bible Says
“Oh, that he would kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is more delightful than wine. The fragrance of your perfume is intoxicating; your name is perfume poured out. No wonder young women adore you. Take me with you, let us hurry. Oh, that the king would bring me to his chambers.”
– Song of Solomon 1: 2-4



“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” – Hebrews 13:4

“Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.” – 1 Corinthians 7:5


Round table Discussion
Q: Have you experienced this kind of love before?


Q: When eros, passion fades, how do we keep the flames burning? Or what are the things to keep the fire burning?

Maybe find out your partner's love language and put the other first?
Love Language by Gary Chapman.


Prayer request.


Action item for the week
- How can you build your relationship to a level of showing love?
- Continue to mingle with each other and pray for each other.


CLOSE PRAYER



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