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Pastor Tommy
I first heard the song “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love” in Senior High Youth Group at Plymouth Park United Methodist Church in Irving, Texas. The song was shared with us by our youth minister, Rev. Carl Rohlfs. We sang it often, knew all the words, and believed it to be true. As a group of young people, we tried hard to live these words in our life together. As a result, we became a community grounded in love.
I deeply believe in Jesus’ command to love. I affirm the Letter of James, which says “You do well if you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture: you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (2:8). Love is the powerful, transformative way that God has chosen to work in the world. When we live lives of love, God lives in us and God’s love is perfected in us (1 John 4). When we live as Christians, we are a people grounded in love.
It is a tense and anxious time for all of us. As I write to you today, we do not know the full results of Tuesday’s election. I do know, however, that the command to live love is as relevant today as when Jesus spoke it two thousand years ago. I also know that the work of compassion and the commitment to justice for all people is vital to our life together. I know you join with me in prayer. I know you join with me in our work together.
May God bless us, and may they know we are Christians by our love.
Tommy
