Topic: Love

Love is both a command and an eschatological promise. The promise undergirds our striving to obey the command.

Christ’s desire to extend hospitality to us, to welcome us at his table, is so great that he will give even his own life to bring us into the experience of his love. This is the pattern for our call to hospitality too.

God’s merciful and all-inclusive love is steadfast, not arbitrary, and so fills us with hope in the coming Christ.

Growth in faith and love come as we work through tough times together for God.

The love of Christ draws us into a radically deeper set of love relationships, but don’t expect them to be understood by those outside the faith.

Christ calls us to continue to grow in the measure of our love, prayer and good works.

The encounter with the resurrected crucified Jesus enables us to see the absolute love, mercy and non-vengefulness of God.

It’s our place to be within, and part of, creation and to love it as God loves it, and to learn to be ready to stand with others in their place of need.

The impossible love and grace of God invite us to participate in the life of God despite our circumstances, but we often get stuck in trying to find meaning in the circumstances.

Love is a gift which we invited to become at home in, receiving and enjoying it, not questioning, measuring and regulating it.

In Jesus, God is calling us to see and hear a gospel that takes us beyond rule making and sacred violence.

We are given gifts from God – faith, love and hope – to help us cope with all that is less than God – especially when ‘principalities and powers’ overwhelm us.