Dr. Scott McKee continues our 40-day “Loving Like Jesus” journey by walking through 1 Corinthians 13 with five surprising “shock treatments” for the church: love outranks ecstatic gifts, surpasses biblical knowledge (and home-run sermons), is preferable even to mountain-moving power, and outshines dramatic vows of poverty or martyrdom. Pastor Scott shows how Corinth had elevated secondary things—and how we still do—then re-centers us on Jesus’ mark of discipleship: “By this everyone will know… if you love one another.” In this message you’ll learn why love is the true exam, how ordinary kindness carries more voltage than spectacle, and why daily “small deaths” to self form Christlike hearts. You’ll also hear how the 40 days work—six Sunday messages, daily readings (The Relationship Principles of Jesus by Tom Holladay), weekly small-group conversations, and simple practices—so love moves from ideal to habit. A moving Henri Nouwen story invites us to grow our capacity to love people in concrete, inconvenient, beautiful ways. Our aim is not to “try harder,” but to let Jesus love through us until love becomes our dominant life principle. May we be a people who carry the torch forward with courage, humility, and generational faithfulness.

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