“Big Love: The
Many Loves of God”
Sermon for MCC
New Haven
April 28, 2013
Rev. Brian
Hutchison, M.Div.
Texts:
Acts
11:1-18
John
13:31-35
John quotes
Jesus as saying, “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one
another.” Mark wrote, “… you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
and “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”[1]
Matthew left out the word “strength,” but he added, “On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets.”[2]
Luke also copied Mark, but he added, “…do this and you will live.”[3]
So all of
the Gospels in our Bible tell us that Jesus had a pinnacle, a climax, the
highest point to his teaching: Love is
the answer. And this is the lens through which I read scripture and through
which I read anything. When
evaluating any ethical dilemma, we must always ask, “How do we follow Jesus’
commandment of Unconditional Love?”
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