Love One Another

Jeremiah 37-39; Psalms 79; 2 John

“…I ask that we love one another. And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.”

2 John 5, 6

The simple message of the apostle John was to love one another through obeying Christ’s commands. This ethic of love expressed in a community of Christ-followers who are living each day with Jesus in his mission is to be the focus and practice of our lives. The challenges of false doctrine and false brothers in the Church, which John was addressing in his letter, can all be dealt with and discerned if we live with love in a community that follows Jesus in life. The Church is more than a set of beliefs and doctrines, it is a community of loving Christ-followers who live the ethics of Jesus and express the culture of the kingdom of heaven here on earth.

Does that describe us?

“Lord Jesus, we love because you first loved us, for your glory.”