This is our family mantra.
Matthew 22:36-40 (NASB)
"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
..."YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND."
"This is the greatest and foremost commandment.
The second is like it. 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the prophets."
It's all about love people. Love is the basis of well, everything....and it's what we're supposed to be known by.
John 13:35
"By this all men will know you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Oh, and another thing. Real love has legs.
Proof of our love is keeping His commandments. (John 14 :15 and the six other times John repeated this.)
Sometimes I think the church has forgotten that our primary mandate other than loving God is to love and care for our fellow man. Yet my Sunday school class gives me hope that this isn't true.
*There's the guy who's late most mornings because he's giving a newly non-homeless person a ride to work.
*Our teacher, an artist, puts on shows to support "Laundry Love" another homeless ministry.
* A couple that's preparting to go to Jordan as missionaries is actively involved in the international student ministries at UMKC, helping provide household goods, local information, and just plain old fellowship to the international students.
*Almost every person involved in the class serves "somewhere" within our branch of the body.
Our class plea seems to be "Please let us be real servants, not just seat-warming Pharisees."
All I can say is AMEN.
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