Selflessness is being “less” of “self.” Puting others needs above your own needs, having no concern about the impact this has on your life.

Agape is the greek word used in the Bible to describe the characteristic of selflessness and is translated as love. We believe that being selfless or “being agape” is the best way to live for us and for humanity.

 

Selflessness is being “less” of “self.” Puting others needs above your own needs, having no concern about the impact this has on your life.

Agape is the greek word used in the Bible to describe the characteristic of selflessness and is translated as love. We believe that being selfless or “being agape” is the best way to live for us and for humanity.

BIBLICAL SELFLESSNESS

Jesus tells us that the most important commandment in the bible is to love (agape) God, and to love (agape) our neighbour as ourself.

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. An a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matt 22:36-40)

If love or being selfless is the most important commandment in the bible. It must be worth considering and applying in our lives. How do we know we are showing agape or being selfless? We know because agape love is that it extends beyond emotions. It’s much more than a feeling, sentiment or spiritual quality. Agape love is active. It demonstrates love through actions. Think of Jesus physically giving his life for us. We know we are being selfless if our actions are puting others needs before our own and our time is spent satisfying others and not ourselves.

“Let us not love  with word or with tongue, but in action and in truth.” (1 John 3:18)

BEING SELFLESS BENIFITS EVERYONE

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(you - giver)

  • Gives you a real, meaningful purpose for life. A purpose that will leave a positive stamp on this earth
  • Puts your own problems into perspective because you are absorbed with helping others
  • Helps you solve your own problems and  challenges through practicing helping other people

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(others - reciver)

  • They feel loved and cared for
  • Inspires others to pass on the love they recieved
  • It will improve people’s health. In one or more of these ways: Emotionally, mentally, physically and spirtitually

 

GODS SELFLESSNESS

Agape is also the term that defines God’s immeasurable, incomparable love for humankind. It is his ongoing, outgoing, selfless concern for lost and fallen people. God gives this love without condition, unreservedly to those who are undeserving and inferior to himself. 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)”

A simple way to explain selflessness is to look at God’s love. He has no good reason to save us, but he does because cares how we feel and because he is a God of love.