October 27, 2024
Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas
Check Your Halos and Egos at the Door
Personal morality and religious convictions tend to work from a place where no one believes they are getting it wrong. Everyone is certain their cause is just, their motives are pure, and their character unimpeachable. Many religious people think they are loving their neighbor even if their neighbor has doubts about that, and most of us fancy ourselves table flippers while presiding over that themselves could use some upending.

If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk

What if upon Jesus’ return his first question to us is: “I asked you to do one thing: love. So, what happened?” If God is love and if Jesus is the perfect expression of that love, and if we are supposed to follow that Jesus—how can we so often be love-impaired? For as long as human beings have been declaring devotion to a God of love, they have been gloriously screwing it up by being hateful in the process. The Bible doesn’t shy away from that, and neither should we. Join us as we explore some of the ways we fall short of the call to “love God, self, and neighbor” through the book and sermon series If God is Love, Don’t be a Jerk!

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