Simple Obedience Part 2
In Part One, we looked at the 2 great commandments and the great commission and summed them up as: Love God, Love People, and Make Disciples. We made the point that from what Jesus said in both cases (you can read it all in Matthew 22:34-40 and Matthew 28: 18-20) it seems that the first 2 summarize the fulfilment of the Old Testament and that the 3rd sums up the New Testament. The most simple way that the requirements of obedience, that are expected of God's people in our present day, can be listed is : Love God, Love People, and Make Disciples.
In coming blogposts, I plan to share some more thoughts about why this is so and ask some practical questions on how we can use this simple idea in our lives, but in this short posting, I just want to make 1 point.
The point is: 1 comes before 2 and 2 comes before 3.
Or to say it a different way, you can't really make disciples of people for the Lord if you don't love those people.....and you can't love those or any people if you don't love God!
Love for God is first in our priority, our list, our strategy, our relationships with others, and our mission. We can't really love others in a Godly way if we don't Love God and on the other hand, we don't love God, if we don't love others. (I John 4:20-21...in fact the whole book of I John is a commentary on this whole concept).
So what does it mean to Love God...Love People...and Make Disciples?
More next time.
In coming blogposts, I plan to share some more thoughts about why this is so and ask some practical questions on how we can use this simple idea in our lives, but in this short posting, I just want to make 1 point.
The point is: 1 comes before 2 and 2 comes before 3.
Or to say it a different way, you can't really make disciples of people for the Lord if you don't love those people.....and you can't love those or any people if you don't love God!
Love for God is first in our priority, our list, our strategy, our relationships with others, and our mission. We can't really love others in a Godly way if we don't Love God and on the other hand, we don't love God, if we don't love others. (I John 4:20-21...in fact the whole book of I John is a commentary on this whole concept).
So what does it mean to Love God...Love People...and Make Disciples?
More next time.
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