It all begins with love.  God’s love towards us.  Before we even knew Him, He loved. 

He sent His Son, Jesus to make it possible for us to have our sins forgiven and be right with God.   When we love God with all that we are, we are called to love others as God would love them.

“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

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.   And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  Matthew 22:37-39

Growing in our faith is called discipleship.  Simply put, we are learning more about who Jesus is, what He wants for our lives and how he wants us to treat each other.

Jesus is our example of a servant, He came to serve and not to be served (Mat 20:28).  As we grow in our relationship with Christ we will have a desire to follow His example of serving one another. 

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,  from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.  Ephesians 4:15-16

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.  2 Thessalonians 1:3