River Valley Church has been walking very slowly through the book of John. This last week Pastor Gordon taught from John 15:12-17. The main topic was love and the fact that we are commanded to love. On the drive home my wife and I talked at length about what this love looks like in our lives.
”This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
We came to the conclusion that it is easy to show love in the good times, but we things are going south how do we respond? What are situations in your life that are challenging the way you love? Are there conversations you are avoiding? Does this show the love that Jesus is describing in John 15?
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