Live the Easter Story
Gary Fenton in Staff Chapel this morning:
1 John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
A message about loving those who are difficult to love - how appropriate!
Thru knowing God, we love first and the feeling comes along after that. The feeling does not promote our loving another or others. God and knowing God does. God loves US in OUR unloveliness.
There is not just one Easter story - the Jesus story just happens to be the "first" Easter story - our lives are to be Easter stories as well - there are many more Easter stories.
We MUST love others - not just those who are easy to love but those who are difficult to love or who NEED our love or who don't deserve our love.
Live the Easter story this week!
(I had a sister on my mind when J asked us to think of someone with whom our relationship was strained.)
1 John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
A message about loving those who are difficult to love - how appropriate!
Thru knowing God, we love first and the feeling comes along after that. The feeling does not promote our loving another or others. God and knowing God does. God loves US in OUR unloveliness.
There is not just one Easter story - the Jesus story just happens to be the "first" Easter story - our lives are to be Easter stories as well - there are many more Easter stories.
We MUST love others - not just those who are easy to love but those who are difficult to love or who NEED our love or who don't deserve our love.
Live the Easter story this week!
(I had a sister on my mind when J asked us to think of someone with whom our relationship was strained.)
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