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 majority of 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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