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Building Blocks of Faith: Who is God?
The first reading was a children's Bible version of the first creation story.
Second reading: 1 John 4:7-13,16b-21
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way:God sent the only Son into the world so that we might live through him. This is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent the Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and God’s love is perfected in us.
God is love.Those who dwell in love dwell in God, and God dwells in them. Love has been perfected among us like this,so that we can be confident when we stand before God,because just as God is love, so are we in the world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.Fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because God first loved us. Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their fellow people, are liars; for those who do not love another person whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
The commandment we have from God is this: those who love God must also love their fellow people.
John 15:1-8
Jesus said to his disciples, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. The Father removes any branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit. Every branch that bears fruit is pruned to make it bear even more fruit. You have already been pruned by the word that I have spoken to you. Now, dwell in me as I dwell in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it dwells in and stays connected to the vine, neither can you unless you dwell in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who dwell in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not dwell in me is thrown away, like a branch, and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you dwell in me, and my words dwell in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”
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The first reading was a children's Bible version of the first creation story.
Second reading: 1 John 4:7-13,16b-21
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way:God sent the only Son into the world so that we might live through him. This is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us and sent the Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us, and God’s love is perfected in us.
God is love.Those who dwell in love dwell in God, and God dwells in them. Love has been perfected among us like this,so that we can be confident when we stand before God,because just as God is love, so are we in the world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.Fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because God first loved us. Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their fellow people, are liars; for those who do not love another person whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.
The commandment we have from God is this: those who love God must also love their fellow people.
John 15:1-8
Jesus said to his disciples, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. The Father removes any branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit. Every branch that bears fruit is pruned to make it bear even more fruit. You have already been pruned by the word that I have spoken to you. Now, dwell in me as I dwell in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it dwells in and stays connected to the vine, neither can you unless you dwell in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who dwell in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not dwell in me is thrown away, like a branch, and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you dwell in me, and my words dwell in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”