Again Jesus said,
“Simon son of John, do you love me?” He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I
love you.” Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
From Background Notes
[BN] for March 21st& 22nd written by Pastor Bob Brown:
What do you love? In
his book Desiring the Kingdom, Jamie Smith offers an alternative form of
human nature than the common belief that to be human is to be “a thinking
thing” (apologies to Descartes!). He tells us that...
...we are “desiring beings” or “loving beings”
long before we become thinking beings. We are what we love, he reminds
us. Everybody loves something, even if they are typically thought of as hateful
persons with spiteful motives and destructive actions. At the very least,
persons’ actions reveal their loves: what they do is what they love. The human
problem is not that people don’t love anything, but that they love the wrong
things, the lesser things, or the bad things that injury them and others. For
human nature to change, desires and loves must change. [BN,1-2]
Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church
of the Nazarene:
* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am, 10am (FX)
and 11:15am
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