Rev. Dr. Stacey M. Cox
I John 3:11-24
Were you to ask people what it means to love, you’d get a variety of answers. Most explanations will be shallow because relationships in our world have become shallow. The author Walker Percy once lamented, “Who is going to protect words like ‘love,’ guard against their devaluation? … When words [like love] get abused, cheapened, exhausted, worn thin as poker chips, the novelist is losing his only tools. Always in deep trouble, he is now in deeper trouble than usual.” The apostle John doesn’t allow us to wade into a shallow understanding of love. He takes us to the cross to teach us how to love another, even when we aren’t loved back – or even liked back. Join us Sunday for “Life-Giving Love.”