I think there is important message to this. Jesus did not come preaching a gospel of hating your brother. In fact we are told in 1 John 2:9 (NIV)"Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness."
Jesus draws us to love people. We might disagree with them, we might have different doctrines them and different faith journeys on our walk with Jesus. But that does not give us the excuse to hate others.
The church especially my movement has been earned the reputation that we do not love others. We hate other demo nations,and that we are the only ones going to heaven. To me that sounds more like hate, than love.
God loves the whole world. Jesus died for the sins of the World, not just yours, not just mines. Are doctrine important? Yes, and I believe that we need to find those doctrines from the Bible, not from what some man or woman wrote down.
However the two greatest commandments are to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind... and to Love your neighbor as yourself." All the Law and prophets hang on these two commandments." - Matthew 22:37-40
I think we should spend more time Loving God and loving each-other, than we do ignoring God as we fight each-other.
-M
2 comments:
Good insight. When will we learn that love can cover a multitude of sin?
Who knows?
But God is greater than we are.
-M
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