Every year, about this time, I ask us to listen carefully to the message of 1st John. Every year we have Christmas. Every year we have Easter. Every year we have Pentecost. And every year, as long as I'm around, sometime towards the end of the summer or at the beginning of the fall, we talk about 1st John.
Christians believe a lot of different things.
Christians do a lot of things. A lot of the time, we seem to be acting at cross-purposes. But 1st John reminds us that the foundation of our community as friends and companions of Jesus, the foundation is always love. Those words are at the heart of who we are. They define us.