This is Church: ”How God Builds His Church: Unity and Love”

September 1, 2024

Associate Pastor Louise Waller

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Colossians 3:12-17

Unity and Love are REQUIRED

No worship without loving community

John 13:34-35

(Song: They’ll Know We are Christians by Our Love)

No New Life in Christ without loving community

‘In the Name of Christ’

Loving community is The Glory of God

Psalm 133

They are Worth it

"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to
remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day
be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship,
or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a
nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one of
other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it
is with the awe and circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all
our dealings with one another; all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There
are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations,
cultures, arts, civilization itself – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the
life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and
exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. Next to the Blessed
Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."
C.S. Lewis

(NIV)