Let Us Love...(Preached on April 29, 2018)
It all begins with God’s love. And in case we ever forget that, I John makes it crystal clear. The writer of this epistle, whomever he may have been- Biblical scholars can reach no consensus about the authorship- the writer is very clear what he believes, what he has come to know, about the nature of God. GOD IS LOVE. GOD IS LOVE. Which is a powerful statement…a statement which should knock us back on our heels, if we take time to think about it. Because it is saying to us that this God who we say we love…and serve…and in whom we say we believe, is fully and totally and completely LOVE. Not judgement or anger or hatred or exclusion, but LOVE… and love expresses who God is. Now, the love described in I John is not some abstract concept…some touchy-feely emotion. No- this love is passion expressed in action. This writer tells us that God made love real and present by incarnating it in Jesus, whose own loving example of self-giving lo...