Love that transforms

Stanley Green is the head of our denominations mission agency, Mennonite Mission Network. In the context of his seminary studies, he had access to hundreds of thousands of theological texts. It would be easy, then, to think that living the Christian life is incredibly complicated. In Matthew 22:36-40 Jesus boils everything down to, “Love God and love your neighbor as yourself.” As children we learn John 3:16 and we sing “Jesus loves me” and we begin to understand that we are loved by God. We learn that we are not only objects of God’s love, but subjects of God’s love, passing that love on to others. Perhaps a challenge for us is to move more fully from seeing ourselves as only recipients of God’s love to being channels or instruments of God’s love, sharing that love with the whole world.