[Propertalk] Fwd: [propertalk.topic] Sermon for Epiphany 3A - Part 1 A

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-------- Original message --------From: Judy <judy_boli at ecunet.org> Date: 1/23/17  7:01 AM 
Dear Friends, This Sunday’s sermon is entitled “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love” or “Jesus Said: ‘FISH!’” and deals with all the lessons.  Here it is:  Do you remember the old Sunday school song: “I will make you fishers of men?”  This morning we heard where that song came from.  We heard Jesus call his first four disciples- Andrew, Peter, James, and John and tell them he would teach them to fish for people.  He calls us to do the same thing, not with first century methods- but with twenty-first century methods.  Many of our techniques may change- we use telephones and cars and vans and television and CD players, but one constant remains: LOVE!  Close to 100 years after Jesus died, the Roman Emperor Hadrian sent a man named Aristides to spy on Christians to see why they were growing so strong.  His answer has rung down through the ages: “Behold, how they love one another!”  Love is probably the most important Christian value that makes Jesus and the church attractive to people.  It’s our best evangelism tool.  Remember, Jesus gave us only one commandment: “You must love each other, just as I have loved you.  If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples” (John 13:34-35).  So you can see that love (not just how they felt about each other, but how they treated each other) became the hallmark of Jesus’ followers, of the Christian Church…well- most of the Christian Church, because Paul’s church in Corinth had a real problem with love.   <Continued in Part 1 B> For anyone who is interested, this sermon and updated African-American wisdom statements are posted on our parish’s web site under “Sermons & Stuff”. The address is: http://www.stpaulsepisag.org . Blessed preaching,Judy BoliSt. Paul's Episcopal ChurchSaginaw, Michigan



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