Got Love?

Jeremy read this to me over breakfast (I was in desperate need of a "do-over" this morning) and it impressed me so much I'm sharing it here. It is an excerpt from the book "John for Everyone" by NT Wright.



"To wash someone else's feet, you have to think of yourself as only a slave...Love is all about the other person. It overflows into service, not in order to show off how hard-working it is, but because that is its natural form. This is to be the badge that the Christian community wears before the watching world. As we read John 13:35 ("your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples") we are bound to cringe with shame at the way in which professing Christians have treated each other down the years. We have turned the gospel into a weapon of our own various cultures. We have hit each other over the head with it, burnt each other at the stake with it. We have defined the 'one another' so tightly that it means only 'love the people who reinforce your own sense of who you are'."

Got Love?