By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:35
The Church is in the business of love, not in buildings or sermons or or worship teams or great Sunday productions. “But,” you say “I thought we were in the business of telling the world about Jesus.”
The world doesn’t care about Jesus. It doesn’t care He was God. It doesn’t care that He died for them. It doesn’t care that He’s coming again. It really doesn’t care when He’s coming again.
The plan is to make them care. We make them care by demonstrating something so amazing, so attractive, so life changing that they come on their own. That they ask, “What have you got? Who is this Jesus?” But loving is not what we do. We do the sermons. We build the buildings. We pray. We teach. These are certainly all good things. But we don’t use the key that Jesus gave us, love.
Why don’t we? Because it’s hard. It doesn’t come natural. Oh, we are use to loving so we will be loved; but we don’t know how to love like Jesus loved, unconditionally, expecting nothing in return. As His followers we have something no one else has, the power to love like that. Deep inside it’s something everyone wants.
Tonight at Amana, at 6 p.m. we will consider this problem of love. We will look at the reasons that we don’t do it, that we find it so difficult. If you haven’t been coming, come anyway. This is the bottom line. this is the business of being the church. Nothing else matters.
See you then, but regardless, I love you anyway.
Nick
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