The beatitudes proclaim God’s preferential love for the poor and challenge us to rethink our own dependence on financial security.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Love (Page 9)
Love is both command and promise and is what gives meaning to all our offerings to God.
From the desire of a baby for the breast, we can learn a lot about our need of God’s nurture.
Jesus summarised the way by saying “Love God with everything you have and love your neighbour.” We find that easy enough to accept as the answer to a question but much harder to really live by.
It is true that God is love, but God’s love is so tough, demanding and uncomfortably interactional that we will sometimes experience it as harsh, unpredictable and unreasonable.
God breaks down all social barriers and differentiates between us on love alone.
Our goal is intimate union with Christ, and everything else in our lives as Christians will arise from that.
Jesus calls us to follow his lead in rejecting easy comfortable paths and choosing the tough road of costly active love.
Love for enemies is a response to God’s love for us, but in cases of huge hurt it is a community issue.
God’s love unconditionally seeks all people.
There are all sorts of right-sounding ways we avoid being neighbours and to encourage service of neighbours.