The sermon is built on the Apostles Creed - the mere Christianity Lewis wrote about.
Pattie (guest speaker and retired pastor, said she was raised with a "supposed to believe mentality" whereas we have a relationship with Jesus. That said, these basic beliefs bind us together as a people.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity teaches that we will never stop learning about God.
God created everything that exists. Thinking on creation is a great meditation.
Psalm 136 tells us twenty-six times that God's love endures forever.
God loves because that's who God is. God's loves is based on nothing. We cannot do anything to earn or destroy that love.
God loves because God is Love. LORD means, "I AM WHO I AM."
God is our God - our personal God - God comes to be with us. God wants a personal relationship with us.
God wants a dance of Love - both of us loving and loving fully - for there is Joy, there is Divinity.
If we love God we will love what God has made (which God loves). This is the same teaching as Bhakti Yoga as a path to enlightenment.
God is Love and when we allow ourselves to love, God lives in us, and God's love is made perfect in us (1 John 4:12). This also echoes a Lewis reading this past week about our individuality being made perfect in God. God's love is made perfect in us and we are made perfect in God!
God is not just watching us from a distance. God came to us and lives with us and in us. God came near and God is near ... right here, right now.
God is here. God is near. And God is Love.
Thought for the Week: What is my life saying to the people around me about Who I believe God is?
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