And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. — Colossians 3:14 Read more…

   As Christians or followers of Christ we are called to love one another and love God as well. It’s the greatest commandment Jesus states in Matthew 22. In a lot of churches were turning away people because if their past and things they’ve done prior but just like Jesus in John 3 we were not sent to the world to condemn it or judge it but in order that the word might be saved through us. How are we showing love to God’s children when we shun them for trying to get to know Jesus in the midst of their sin. We are called to love because Christ first loved us he loved us and saved us while we were still sinners that we might be saved. So if we want more people in the church and more people calling upon the name of Jesus we need to start doing more things with the love of Christ in us 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 MSG If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 there it is saying we are nothing we are bankrupt without love and the is not at all the life Christ has in store for us in John 10 talks about how Jesus came to that we may have life and life more abundant we stop that process when we don’t show love to our neighbors. When we condemn them for their actions. Everyone probably knows the story of Paul how he was once Saul and we’ll known in the Christian community back then for killing Christians. Then God blinded him and changed his path and after that God called him to start to preach and spreading the word almost immediately and the people of those times were probably hesitant at first but their response was to worship God because of Paul, imagine the response and looks on people’s faces if someone like Paul walked into your church, a man who’s known for killing countless people maybe even those closest to you. I don’t think we’d be as accepting of him. Honestly speaking I don’t even know if he’d make it past some of our doors. If you continue on in 1 Corinthians 13 you see the characteristics of love and what it is and isn’t. Think about those when meeting new people or trying to love your neighbor. Remember that we love because Christ first loved us.

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