1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 12-14 deals with the community of faith and specifically how spiritual gifts are part of the community. In the middle of this discussion, Paul inserts this teaching on love. What he is telling us is that spiritual gifts are from God. They are to be used in doing the work of God. However, love is at the center of all that we do. We can have incredible gifts and do amazing acts of faith, but if we do not have love, "I gain nothing".
The community of faith is built on love. A love we extend to those in our community and beyond our community.
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I hope (and believe) that the meeting on Sunday regarding "Grapevine Village" was filled with our love for God and desire to serve Him. I pray that all those there from the trailer park felt God's presence and love in that time together. It seems that would be an expression of the kind of love written about in this Scripture as we listened without judgment to some of those who are struggling in our community. I pray that we will find ways to show our love in many more ways to those in Grapevine and throughout the world.
ReplyDeleteIt is a loving God who birthed creation, and who pursued his children, a broken people, in a most spectacular way through Jesus Christ. That same love must guide us, as we ministry to those in our ministry mile, lest we become part of the meaningless chatter of life, which there is already far to much of.
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