JOHN | A New Commandment

This Sunday we conclude and continue in our Series 'These things are written that you may believe.' We will conclude chapter 13 and continue with the central theme of John's gospel which is love.

Being loved is the most powerful motivation in the world and our ability to love is often shaped by our personal experience of love. Some of the greatest statements about God's loving nature were written by a man who experienced God's love in a unique way. John, Jesus' disciple, expressed his relationship to the Son of God by calling himself 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' because Jesus knew John fully and loved him fully.

We cannot know the depth of Jesus' love unless we are willing to face the fact that He also knows us completely, not the people we sometimes pretend to be, but the sinners we actually are. God's love is the great motivator for change and it's not given in exchange for our efforts: His love frees us to really live. Love is an attitude that reveals itself in action. Blessings — Pastor Don