Why
Trinity?
“I give you a new commandment, that
you love one another.
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.” (John 13:34-35)
At
These
are not just words good for the hearing – these are words good for the living –
our living them out in our lives, here and now.
We believe it is possible to love as Jesus loves. And it is not only possible, but crucial to
the building and maintenance of this community of faith.
So,
how do we do it? The first step in
loving as Jesus loves is we accept Jesus’ love for us! To be able to say as individuals drawn to a
faith relationship with our Living Savior that, “I know Jesus died for me! Not just for my sinful nature, but for me as
an individual person known and named and claimed by God. From God’s point of view, I was worth the
sacrifice of Jesus’ life, and that demonstration of self-giving love provides
me with the only sense of self-worth I need.
“It
reaches me at my deepest level of being.
I am loved by God! And that makes
every other relationship I have, -- with my family, my friends, and you, --
that much more fulfilling, and precious.”
One
of our goals is that everyone can be touched by God’s love to make for
themselves a similar statement of faith!
Can you accept without reservation that Jesus’ love is for you? We pray it is so!
From this first step of faith flows the second. When we can see that we are loved and
claimed and known by God, then we are able to see other people as also being
loved and claimed and known by God in Christ.
We are moved by God’s Holy Spirit to view others as being worthy, unique
individuals for whom Jesus died. Because
when we can accept Jesus’ love for ourselves, and accept Jesus’ love for
others, then we, too, can indeed put into practice the commandment to love one
another as Jesus loves us.
But,
this loving as Jesus loves – what does it mean?
If love is understood as acting towards one another as God acts toward
the world and as Christ acts toward his disciples in every generation, then
love is not to be understood as simply a feeling we ought to have towards one
another. No, love is an active way of speaking
and doing, of “being there” for one another.
This
is who we are at
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