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INTRO-
We have been talking about the now what.
When we accept Christ as lord and savior now what.
What does it mean to be a christian and what does it mean to be the church.
We have been talking about what it means to follow Jesus and what it means for our church to follow Jesus together.
I believe scripture points to three things as foundation for living out faith.
I - Try to love God w/o loving others
LG LO MDGC and GC
I - Try to love god w/o loving others - A time I tried to do something w/o doing the bits i didn't like.
This week LO
I - Half Cleaning the house
I am really good at half cleaning the house
Big paper - Clean the kitchen
Sermon struggles - vaccum
difficult conversation - bathroom
In seminairy erin would look forward to finals week because I would be looking for ways to avoid what I really needed to be doing.
W- Try to Love God w/o loving others
Especially after a long week it feels really good to clean the house.
INTRO-
In fact there are a few things around the house like that.
I will do almost all of a chore, but stop short before its finished.
Do the laundry, but don’t put it away.
clean the living room, but toss Foster’s toys behind a chair instead of putting them back where they go.
Put the cold groceries away, but leave the rest.
And I tend to think, wrongly, that this counts as doing the chore and it should drive erin Crazy.
When i was a kid i would clean my room by shoving everything into the closet.
W - Try to love God w/o loving others
But of course this doesnt really count.
If you wash the dishes w/o putting them away have you really washed the dishes?
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We have been talking about what it means to follow Jesus and what it means for our church to follow Jesus together.
And I see this impulse at work in myself when it comes to following Jesus.
We have been talking about what it means to follow Jesus and what it means for our church to follow Jesus together.
I believe scripture points to three things as foundation for living out faith.
LG LO MD
GC and GC
Matthew 22:34-37
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together.
35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Jesus says everything hangs on these commandments.
This week our focus is Loving neighbor or Love Others.
And sometimes when I am presented with that call to LOVE OTHERS I would rather do just about anyhting else and I dont think I’m alone in this.
W- Try to Love God w/o loving others
W- Try to Love God w/o loving others
We are pretty good at loving people
When it doesn't cost much
When people are lovable
The easy to get along with
People like us
Those who love us.
We all have people we know God is calling us to love, but it seems like too much work, we want them to come to us, we are afraid they will reject us or embarrass us, or hurt us.
More challenging with
- the needy
G - Its not enough to LG w/o LO - Loving God and others is intimately connected.
Because GOD LOVES THEM.
How can you love God, and not love the people he loves?
The needy
The different
the other
The difficult
Its when we encounter the kinds of people that are hard for us to love that we start to get creative in how we see Jesus words here.
right?
I know I do.
THen we get really creative
Duh!
They should really do that!
Jesus coundnt have meant it like that!
Dont hate, tolerate
cultivate warm feelings
accuse others of not loving
Try real hard to love and get discouraged
What about bad people?
What about sinners?
WHat are the limits?
Even bible commentaries try and find ways out of this one.
Its like nailing down Jello, we keep jumping out of the way.
This is so hard that we want to be let off the hook and we are not alone.
G - Its not enough to LG w/o LO - LOVING GOD is LOVING OTHERS God’s love makes it possible for us to love others
Amos - Isreal tries to LG w/o loving people, God responds - AMOS says DO JUSTICE (God cares about the innocent)
You Can’t Love God without Loving Others
Ancient Isreal tried to love God, without loving others often.
They would worship in temple, make sacrifices, sing songs and celebrate festivals.
But they neglected to take care of the poor, the orphan, and the foriegner in their midst.
God said this to them in AMOS 5:21-24
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals;
your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
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