I command you, that you love one another. The supernatural testimony of the church proclaims the same testimony of Christ s. The church responds by faith in what Jesus begins. The church expresses thanks giving for his marvelous grace. This is demonstrated in the unity of what is believed and lived among those who respond to what God is doing and has done.
Membership is an exciting thing.
It is a confirmation of what Jesus has done. Because it publicly confesses what Jesus has to say about his discriminating love, as being the truth. It affirms that God s sovereign work can not be duplicated or is ever in need of help. God s grace defined for us in Scripture is wonderful, it is special, and it is powerful. Here we have the account of the miracle of the lame man restored to walking.