This station, and the one after it, the call to love , really work as a pair. The call to obedience is necessary. The call to love is sufficient. By that, I mean that if you have love, you have all truth. But, until we get there, we have to start somewhere, and that somewhere is obedience.
Obedience is necessary for a proper relationship with other human beings.
Obedience is necessary for a proper relationship with God, but it is not sufficient. We will discuss more about this in the next section. For right now, I want to focus on the power of obedience, and what the cross of Christ tells us about it. We will begin on a very simple, common, human plane. You see, Jesus was a man.