Dear friends, let us
love one another, for love comes from God.
1 John 4:7
The Beatles were onto something with "All You Need Is
Love." After all, Jesus identified
the two greatest commandments as loving God and loving other people. Even John made the radical statement that
"those who lack love don't know God."
What surprises me about Christianity in modern times is that
many people understand the need to go to church, to serve and volunteer when
it's convenient, and people will support the occasional mission trip or
ministry effort, but when it comes to love,
the modern Christian church seems to be missing something.
It's sad, because it's not that we don't have love, it's
just that individually speaking, we as believers are often times
indistinguishable from the world around us.
There is an urgency in John's instructions-we have been born
of a loving God and what this word needs now more than anything is love.
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