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"The First Great Invitation, Love
and Obey God" Matthew 22:37-40, NRSV
37 He said to him, “‘You shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all
your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And
a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
- After reading this passage, if you say
to yourself, "that sounds like work," then you are correct, 100%,
bang on!
- Love is a verb, and love means work.
- Love takes work. To love the Lord our
God with our whole heart, whole soul, and whole mind requires effort.
- Loving God the way the law demands,
Jesus said is the first and greatest commandment.
- Jesus died so that we could love God
with everything that we are. Total commitment. Total obedience. Total
surrender.
- Why? Because he first loved us.
"God demonstrates his own love for us in this, while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
- But this new relationship that we have
of love between our Lord God and us is not just about us.
- We are invited to give our
lives out of a great love God and a great love for others because of his great
love for us all. That is life's greatest purpose, rising to the invitation
of God to love him and love others.
- At tidal impact this summer, our
speaker, Andy Harrington, CEO of The Wellspring Foundation, said that if we
think that the cross of Christ is just about me and my relationship with God,
then we have misunderstood the gospel.
- Many people live that way, like it's
just Jesus and me, me and Jesus got a thing going on.
- We cannot treat our relationship with
God like he's some kind of cosmic boyfriend or girlfriend whom we turn to and
sing to or hang out with or be casually intimate with whenever we feel like it.
- That's a self-centered relationship
not a God centered one.
- The cross of Christ has two
intersecting lines. The first line is vertical, and the second line is
horizontal.
- The Christian life begins with God's
love for us and our love for him, that's the vertical, the beginning of the
first great invitation, but it doesn't end there.
- "And a second is like it,"
said Jesus. "A second is like it." That means that God's love for us
and our love for God has to have an impact outside of ourselves, a horizontal
impact, an unselfish impact. "You shall love your neighbor as
yourself."
- Jesus' followers who claim to love God
must also love others. That's the other part of the first great
invitation. We are invited to love others.
- Our God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit
who is in eternal relationship.
- In the beginning, when God created the
heavens and the earth, he looked at creation saying over and over again,
"it is good...," then he said, "it is not good...for the man to
be alone."
- Humanity was created for loving
relationships with God and with one another.
- Sin broke those relationships, but in
Jesus Christ, God has broken down the barrier of sin and invites everyone into
restored relationships with him and with one another through faith in Jesus
Christ.
- What a wonder that God our Creator
should choose to invite people that reject him and each other (people like us)
to be part of sharing this great invitation with the world! (Amen!)
- The Christian life is a life of
love and love takes work.
- According to the law and Jesus, we who
follow him are to have as deep and as sacrificial a love for those around us as
we have for our very own lives.
- Jesus said, “If any want to become
my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow
me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those
who lose their life for my sake will save it." (Luke 9:23-24, NRSV)
- Our love for our neighbours flows out
of our love for God; that is the horizontal. The two greatest commands go
together like bacon and eggs, ham and Swiss, peanut butter and jelly, husband
and wife, they are not meant to be taken apart, dismantled, separated.
- The call upon the life of every human
being is to love the Lord our God with our whole being and to love our
neighbors as much as we love ourselves.
- We are all invited to respond to God's
great invitation to love him and everyone we meet.
- Answering that call takes commitment,
obedience, and surrender. In short, love takes work.
- But let me say a word of encouragement
before I go on.
- If you love the Lord Jesus, then you
are not alone in learning to be a better lover of God and lover of people.
- You are not alone. The Holy Spirit
walks with you and fills you with the power of his love and your brothers and
sisters in Christ, fellow believers, are there to walk beside you.
- Love is a verb, so love takes work.
However, what happens in the flesh when we stop working?
- What is the natural state of the
person who is not working on love?
- The natural state of the person who is
not working on love is selfishness.
- The Scriptures describe over and over
again the life of a person who is not working with one word, that person is lazy.
- The Christian life is a life of
love and love takes work.
- God said, "six days you shall
labor and do all your work."
- The bulk of our time is to be spent
working not just simply at our job like a workaholic, but working on love,
becoming better lovers of God and of people.
- Salvation takes work. In his
letter to the Philippians, a letter that's bursting with joy, Paul wrote to
them, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; (why?)
for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for
his good pleasure."
- We need to be working on love, loving
God and loving others, because he is the one at work in us, giving us the power
and the desire to work for him. That is the great invitation.
- Everyone is invited to love
the Lord their God with their whole self and love their neighbour as much as
themselves
- Jesus said that we are to love the
Lord our God with our entire being and love our neighbors as deeply and as
sacrificially as we love ourselves.
- Then he ended his answer to the expert
in the law in this way: "On these two commandments hang all the law and
the prophets."
- Everything written about in the law,
from Genesis to Deuteronomy; everything recorded in the histories from Joshua
to Esther, everything in the wisdom books from Job to Song of Songs; everything
written down by the prophets, from Isaiah to Malachi, all of it, said Jesus,
depends upon these two Commandments.
- As a door hangs upon its hinges, so
also do all of the Hebrew Scriptures hang upon these two Commandments.
- These greatest Commandments complete
and fulfill everything God has spoken.
- But whom are we to love? In
the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus plainly said we are not merely to love those who
love us because everyone does that.
- Are we like the lawyer whom Jesus told
the parable of the Good Samaritan that we have to have it spelled out for us?
- Whom are we to love?
- Once when Jesus was at a Sabbath
dinner party put on by a leading Pharisee some interesting and exciting things
happened. I want to share part of that event with you, Luke 14:12-24.
- 12 He said also to the one
who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your
friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may
invite you in return, and you would be repaid. 13 But when you give a
banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. 14 And
you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at
the resurrection of the righteous.”
- 15 One of the dinner guests,
on hearing this, said to him, “Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the
kingdom of God!” 16 Then Jesus said to him, “Someone gave a
great dinner and invited many. 17 At the time for the dinner he sent
his slave to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come; for everything is ready
now.’ 18 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to
him, ‘I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it; please
accept my regrets.’ 19 Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of
oxen, and I am going to try them out; please accept my regrets.’ 20 Another
said, ‘I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come.’ 21 So
the slave returned and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house
became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes
of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ 22 And
the slave said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’ 23 Then
the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the roads and lanes, and compel
people to come in, so that my house may be filled. 24 For I tell you,
none of those who were invited will taste my dinner.’”
- We are to love those who either
cannot or will not repay our love.
- Jesus makes it clear not only whom we
are to invite but whom we are not to invite. Don't invite anyone that can
repay you, says Jesus. Don't merely love those who love you, but love those who
are unable to repay your love.
- The poor, the crippled, the blind, and
the lame of the first century were the people society ignored. They were the
unloved. They were never invited to be guests at banquets.
- We are invited not only to love God,
but to share his love with the unlovable, those whom our society treats as
outcasts and ignores.
- God has extended, first through Jesus
Christ and now through Christ's followers, the church, the greatest invitation
to the world to love him and to love one another.
- Do you know anyone who is ignored and
unloved? Go pay attention to them. Go love them. Go expecting not to be repaid,
but expecting that God's love will be revealed.
- A life of following God entirely out
of total love for him which flows into a life of loving others fulfills all the
demands of the law and the prophets.
- The Christian life is a life of
love and love takes work.
- While I was away at tidal impact and
on vacation, I must confess I was burned out, dried up, sick and exhausted.
- God brought me face-to-face with who I
really am without him, and he is showing me who I can be once again with him.
- God lit a fire under my butt and let
me know that I'd better share the love (and light a fire under yours).
- Love is a verb, so love takes work.
- Rest for today, but since love takes
work; it's time to get workin'.
"The Second Great Invitation, Love
One Another" John 13:34-35
- It was the night Jesus was betrayed,
Passover night.
- Jesus knew who he was, where he came
from and where he was going. He was about his Father's business, accomplishing
that mission and returning to his Father in heaven.
- So, Jesus got up from the table, took
off his outer garment, wrapped a towel around his waist and began to wash his
disciple's feet.
- The disciples were shocked! The very
idea that the one they called Messiah, the anointed King of Israel, should wash
their feet was offensive to them as shown by Peter's reaction, "Master, you wash my feet?"
and "Never Lord, you shall never wash my feet!"
- But Jesus settled him down, telling
him, "If I don't wash your feet, then you can't be part of the work I'm
doing."
- Bold, brash Peter said, "then
wash my hands and my head, also, not just my feet."
- But Jesus assured him that one who
bathed only needed to have his feet washed. Jesus wasn't talking hygiene. He
was talking holiness.
- After removing the towel from around
his waist and putting back on his robe, Jesus returned to the table and asked
his disciples, "Do you understand what I have done for you? You call me
Teacher and Lord and you are right. That is what I am. So if I, your Lord and
Teacher, washed your feet, you must also wash each other's feet. I have given
you an example. What I have done, you do. The servant is not greater than his
master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. If you understand what
I've told you, then act like it, – and live a blessed life."
- Jesus went on to expose his betrayer,
predicting and revealing from the Scriptures that he would be betrayed.
- And as the disciples questioned Jesus
about who would do it, he told them, "The one I give this crust of bread
after I've dipped it." And he gave it to Judas Iscariot.
- The rest of the disciples completely
missed the significance of what Jesus did & said to Judas,
and he went out into the night with the crust of bread still in his hands.
- After Judas left, Jesus talked to his
disciples about the time arriving for God's glory to be displayed in the Son of
Man, and God bringing glory to himself through him.
- Then Jesus told them, "Children,
I am with you, only a little while longer. You're going to look high and low
for me, but as I told the Jews, where I'm going, you are not able to
follow."
- Peter piped up again as the spokesman
for the rest of the disciples, asking Jesus where he was going, and insisting
that he will lay down his life for Jesus, but Jesus tells him he will follow
later and predicts that before the cock crows Peter will have denied Jesus
three times.
- Sandwiched in between Jesus'
announcement that he's only with them a little while longer and his prediction
of Peter's denial, we find the second great invitation of Jesus, the new
commandment.
- It is no mistake that John the gospel
writer put the new commandment where he did in this passage.
- John's going for the full effect. You
see, John wasn't just retelling a story, but the story.
- John is retelling the story in such a
way that in all his hopes and prayers are poured into this story, all his
experience and knowledge of who Jesus was and is, to convince his readers of
the truth.
- At the end of chapter 20, John made it
clear that he wants his readers to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son
of God and that by believing we may have life in his name.
- That is the purpose of John's gospel.
- Therefore, where we find the new
commandment in chapter 13 is no accident, either on the part of Jesus or of
John.
- Last week, we talked about the
greatest Commandments as the first great invitation of Jesus.
- I think that it is obvious that the
new commandment to love one another becomes the second great invitation of
Jesus.
- It is obvious because the new
commandment flows out of the commandments to love the Lord your God and love
your neighbor as yourself.
- Jesus was about to leave his beloved
disciples and so beginning with the new commandment he set out to leave them
with "spiritual treasures" wanting the last things he taught them
before his departure to be what they would remember as most important.
- Jesus said, "Let me give you a
new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one
another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when
they see the love you have for each other.”
- While Jesus calls his command new, the
command to love itself is not new as we know from last week.
- Last week, I neglected to mention that
the greatest command is found in Deuteronomy 6, and the command Jesus attached
to it is found in Leviticus 19, so obviously the command to love is an old
command.
- Why does Jesus call it a new command?
He calls it a new command because it is presented in a new way, with a new
purpose because God is carrying out his mysterious plan in Christ as John 3:16
so powerfully reminds us.
- For God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but
have eternal life.
- God so loved the world that he gave
his only son.
- Jesus said, love one another as I have
loved you. Christians are to love their fellow believers like God loves the
world.
- Mutual Christian love is based on and
found within the self-sacrificing love of Jesus.
- As the pagan world exclaimed, 1900
years ago, "See how they love one another! How ready to die for one
another!"
- Essentially, the love of God is on
display in Jesus and Jesus said to his disciples, "You know how I have
loved you and you've experienced it and seen it, now love each other just like
that."
- Our nearest examples for what the love
of Jesus looks like are already in front of us in John 13. I want to highlight
just a few of them.
- First, Jesus gave his disciples
an example by washing their feet. He told them, "You should do just
as I have done for you."
- Foot washing was reserved for only the
lowest of servants, something akin to scrubbing toilets in public restrooms.
- Jesus expects his disciples to love
one another by serving each other. His disciples are not to think of any task as
being beneath them.
- Any task completed in love and humble
service may be a task offered out of love for one another because of Jesus'
example
- Jesus loved through humble
service to others.
- Second, Jesus loved with a
considerate and a compassionate love.
- Jesus knew that his betrayal, arrest,
and crucifixion would throw his disciples' personal lives into total chaos. All
of their hopes and dreams would come crashing down around them.
- So he tells them out of consideration
and compassion for their weak faith that his betrayal is the very sign that he
is none other than their Lord and God, the great I Am and because they have
received him and believe on him, they, therefore, have received and believe in
the One who sent him.
- Disciples of Jesus need to show the
same considerate compassion for others to everyone, but especially those whose
lives are in a state of weakness, living in chaos.
- Our words and deeds need to take into
account the life situations of others, putting them before ourselves as we
share the compassion of Jesus.
- Jesus loved with a considerate
and compassionate love.
- We again see that consideration and
compassion in Jesus as he interacted with Peter, both with the foot washing and
Peter's brash claim that he would follow Jesus even if he had to die for him.
- Jesus spoke gently with Peter when he
refused to let Jesus wash his feet. "You don't understand what I'm doing
right now," Jesus said to him, "but later it will make sense to
you."
- Even when Peter became adamant, Jesus
simply responded to Peter's need, saying, "If I don't wash you, you can't
be part of what I'm doing."
- He then replied to Peter's request
that Jesus wash his hands and head also with a simple explanation letting him
know he didn't need a bath.
- He told Peter that his gesture of foot
washing wasn't just about clean feet, but about setting an example of personal
holiness as a servant should do.
- Again, we see considerate and
compassionate love in Jesus.
- About Peter's remark that he would
follow Jesus and even lay down his life for him, Jesus spoke the truth but not
without compassion.
- Yes, Peter would deny Jesus three
times, but Jesus tells him so plainly. There's no hint of any verbal abuse or
disgust from Jesus toward Peter.
- Disciples of Jesus must learn to speak
and act gently, responding to genuine needs with compassion, also giving simple
explanations with the loving considerate compassion of Jesus without any hint
of harsh or foul words or any indication of disgust.
- Jesus loved with a considerate and
compassionate love. Jesus loved through humble service to others.
- Third, Jesus loved with a self-sacrificial
love.
- Twice in a span of only moments, Jesus
predicted that evening that he would be betrayed.
- Jesus then went on to talk about God's
glory being displayed in the Son of Man.
- At the time, the disciples couldn't
have known this, but it is undeniable that Jesus was referring to his
crucifixion, just as John has set up Jesus' suffering and death as the climax
of his gospel, because Jesus was looking forward to the victory and glory of
his resurrection beyond his suffering and death.
- Only following his sacrifice could
there be glory. Without the sacrifice of the cross, there is no glory. No glory
for Jesus, and no glory for the Christian.
- Jesus loved with a self sacrificial
love and we are invited to love one another in the same way.
- Just as God called Jesus to be a
living example of the love of God, so also the Christian is called to be a
living example of the love of Jesus.
- Jesus himself testified to the power
of this invitation, the power that that will be displayed in us as we obey this
second great invitation of Jesus.
- "I give you a new
commandment," said Jesus, "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.”
- "By this everyone will know that
you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
- That's the power of this new
commandment, this great invitation. Everyone will know that we are his
disciples, if we have love for one another.
- Everyone will know. There will be no
mistaking it. When we love others like Jesus loves, the world will see
Jesus in us.
- When Christians love one another the
way Christ has loved us, unbelievers will turn to Christ in repentance and
faith.
- When Christians love one another the
way Christ has loved us, we'll grow stronger in the faith
- When Christians love one another the
way Christ has loved us, we will remain united in an anti-God, anti-Christian
world.
- When we love others like Jesus loves,
the world will see Jesus in us.
- What do they see? What do we see in
each other?
- Do people see humble service,
consideration, compassion, and self-sacrifice in us? Do we see it in each
other?
- Love takes work, but it doesn't take
work to be petty, bicker, quarrel, argue, criticize, complain, use harsh words,
foul language and so on.
- It doesn't take work to do those
things because they are the natural state of the human soul. It is the
condition that every single person finds in their heart.
- But the fruit of the Spirit is love
and as we learned last week. Love is a verb and love takes work.
- Salvation is opposed to earning not
effort. Salvation takes effort. Love takes work
- When we love others like Jesus
loves, the world will see Jesus in us.
"The Third Great Invitation: Do to
Others"
Matthew 7:12, The Golden Rule
12 In everything do to others as
you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
- I want us to think about the Golden
Rule this morning as the third great invitation of Jesus.
- While the Golden Rule comes before the
Greatest Commandments and the new commandment in the Scriptures, it is the
third great invitation of Jesus because the Golden Rule flows out of both the
Greatest Commandments and the new commandment.
- The similarities between the Golden
Rule and these Commandments which we have talked about the last two Sundays are
obvious when we consider the words of Jesus about the Greatest Commandments and
the rule: "all the law and the prophets hang on these two commands"
and "for this is the law and the prophets."
- The main principle presented in these
Commandments is the principle of reciprocity.
- The Golden Rule was the most widely
spread ethic in the ancient world because the ancient world considered honor to
be one of the highest values. To treat others with violence was to
dishonor them and deserving of violence in return. To treat others with respect
and hospitality honored them and deserving of the same treatment.
- Let me give you an example, a
reciprocating saw: A reciprocating saw is a type of saw in
which the cutting action works through a push and pull reciprocating
motion of the blade.
- The saw's oscillating action causes
the tip of the blade to travel in an oval pattern so the blade moves not only
back and forth but up and down, allowing it to cut quickly.
- The reciprocating saw reminds me of
the Old Testament law when it comes to violence. A reciprocating saw is used
most of the time for demolition. To treat others with violence was to
dishonor them and deserving of violence in return.
- Leviticus 24: 19 Anyone who
maims another shall suffer the same injury in return: 20 fracture for
fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; the injury inflicted is the injury to
be suffered. 21 One who kills an animal shall make restitution for
it; but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.
- What the Law is talking about is a
form of reciprocation, retribution, also known as vengeance or revenge.
- Like a reciprocating saw, the laws
against violence are primarily about demolition, destruction toward the
offender.
- But according to Jesus, this is not
how a person who belongs to the kingdom of heaven is to behave.
- Matthew records for us earlier from
the Sermon on the Mount (listen for the voice of Jesus): 38 “You have
heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But
I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right
cheek, turn the other also; 40 and if anyone wants to sue you and
take your coat, give your cloak as well; 41 and if anyone forces you
to go one mile, go also the second mile. 42 Give to everyone who begs
from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to borrow from you.
43 “You have heard that it was
said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I
say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so
that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on
the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the
unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do
you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you
greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do
not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your
heavenly Father is perfect
- These words of Jesus are leading up to
the Golden Rule: "in everything do to others what you would have them do
to you; for this is the law and the prophets."
- It sounds and looks like Jesus was
saying that there is a greater value, a greater ethic than reciprocity, giving
and receiving back in turn, beyond the here and now.
- Let's look at these Commandments again
so you can see what I mean.
- Leviticus 19:18 says, "You shall
not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall
love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord."
- What God was telling his people by
this command was that grudges and vengeful acts are really acts against the
self as much as others. If God's people bear a grudge or take revenge against
their neighbor, then they disrespect and dishonor themselves, their neighbor,
and their God.
- Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says
the Lord. God alone is judge.
- When we love our neighbors as
ourselves, we are expressing love and respect for the God who made them and
loves them as much as he loves us.
- In the new command, Jesus said,
"Love one another, just as I have loved you, you should love one another.
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one
another."
- Here the giving in turn is much more
obvious. We have received the love of Christ, and he has set an example for us
that we should do just as he has done for us. He said so himself.
- We must reciprocate the love of Christ
by giving away in turn what we have received.
- The apostle Paul wrote, "Love
does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the
law." (Rom. 13:10, NRSV)
- A person who is able to live by the
basic principle of the Golden Rule is then able to fulfill all the
basic requirements of the law the way God intended, and therefore, be perfect
as our heavenly Father is perfect.
- What we need to understand about being
perfect as the Scriptures understand perfect is to be complete, not lacking in
anything.
- Obedience to the Golden Rule is only complete
as it becomes part of the Christian's daily habits.
- As we keep it, more and more our
character will lack nothing.
- To live by the Golden Rule, it must
guide the Christian's daily treatment of everyone.
- If we desire to love our neighbors as
ourselves, then we will do to others what we would have them do to us.
- To the degree that we value our own
lives will be the degree to which we value the lives of others.
- God immensely values our lives. Each
one of us is immeasurably valuable in the eyes of God.
- Again, the evidence is John 3:16, for
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes
in him should not perish but have eternal life.
- With the Golden Rule, Jesus comes to
the climax of the Sermon on the Mount, and in it, He is making a universal
demand.
- Everyone and anyone who claims to be a
disciple of Jesus is obligated to follow this command.
- Jesus calls his disciples to a
righteousness that is greater than that of the scribe or the Pharisee who lived
by the law of reciprocity.
- The ethic of eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, burn for burn, life for life is a vengeance ethic, a demolitions ethic.
- Disciples of Jesus Christ are not to
practice an ethic of destruction, but an ethic of construction, an ethic which
builds love.
- Love is the overriding essence of the
law and the prophets. Love is the overwhelming theme of the life and ministry
of Jesus Christ.
- In everything do to others as you
would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets, said Jesus.
- The whole weight is on what we do for
others without expecting anything in return.
*- The Message words it this way:
"Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you
want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them.
Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get."
- The keeping of this rule is totally
dependent upon our relationship with God. Without a relationship with the
living God in Jesus Christ, this rule is impossible to keep.
- We can only be good to our neighbors
if we ourselves have experienced God's goodness to us and model our lives after
the person of Jesus Christ.
- Jesus makes all the difference in our
ability to love others. It's Jesus who empowers us to live the Golden Rule, and
when we live it amazing things will begin to happen.
- When we regularly apply the
Golden Rule in daily life, all our relationships will be renewed.
- When Christians regularly apply the
Golden Rule to daily life, their marriage relationships will be renewed.
- When Christians regularly apply the
Golden Rule to daily life, their family relationships will be renewed.
- When Christians regularly apply the
Golden Rule to daily life, their church relationships will be renewed.
- When Christians regularly apply the Golden
Rule to daily life, their marketplace relationships will be renewed.
- When Christians regularly apply the
Golden Rule to daily life, their neighborhood relationships will be renewed.
- When we regularly apply the
Golden Rule in daily life, all our relationships will be renewed.
