Part 6: How Can God Be Love?
What did John mean when He said "God IS love?" Not that God is an impersonal force, but that everything He does is motivated by His love. Whether you know it or not, you've been the beneficiary of His love (Common grace): Ps. 145:9, 15-16, Acts 14:17, Luke 6:35, Ro 1:20. But His love is most keenly felt by those most profoundly aware of their sinfulness: Luke 15.
The Sermon on the Mount is often acclaimed (even by non-Christians) as the greatest moral teaching ever presented. It dares us to dream of the world-changing things that could happen if we began to walk like Him.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
