Westtown Church

Pursuing love in worship and in life means pursuing self-denial out of selfless consideration for what is good for building up, respecting, and honoring others who are around us.  We see this most supremely in the selflessness of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross, as He died for our sins and for our salvation. 

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Christian worship is spiritually rich and personal, but the Apostle Paul reminds us that Christians can sometimes be self-centered and unloving, even in Christian worship.  What does it mean to "pursue love" (1 Cori. 14:1) in Christian worship and what difference does that make in our lives?  Sunday we will explore that together.

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Christian faith and Christian hope need love to work properly in the Christian life.  Love keeps our faith and hope from being insensitive to others and abusing people, as we hold to the truth of God by faith and promote the cause of Christ in hope.  John says, "God is love" (1 John 4:8) and so our faith and hope must be infused and exercised in love, for that is how the world will know we truly are Jesus' disciples.

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If you don't exercise, your muscles atrophy and become weak.  It is the same in the Christian life.  We often think about exericising our faith, but we also need to exericise our hope in Christ.  Fyodor Dostoevsky once said, "Totally without hope one cannot live.  To live without hope is to cease to live.  Hell is [filled with] hopelessness."  This Sunday we will consider together the vital importance of the Christian hope we have as a gift of God's grace in Christ and our responsibility to exericse it, just like our faith.

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Faith is the essential foundation of Christian life, serving as both a gracious gift from God and our personal responsibility. Just as the roots of an oak tree receive nourishment, our faith receives salvation, providing us with a shield in spiritual warfare against life's challenges. As we actively exercise our faith, it cleanses our understanding of God’s love, frees our conscience from guilt, and transforms our identity from sinner to child of God. Trusting in Christ with whatever you are facing today will allow Him to strengthen and transform you.

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What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen in this world?  What is the greatest love you have ever experienced in relationships?  What revealed truth has given the greatest light to a problem in your life, enabled resolution and granted times of peace to flood your soul?  What experience of goodness has most filled you with delight in life?  Now what if you could look face to face with God Himself, the Source of all truth, goodness, and beauty in this world?  That is ultimately where a life of faith in Christ leads; not simply to Heaven, but to see our God, our Lord and Savior, face to face.  This Sunday we'll explore what that means and why it matters.

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Every wise investor knows to take into consideration the long view of things.  And every wise person knows to keep eternity in view, for eternity gives light to the one thing that matters most in our brief life:  love--love for God and one another.

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Love is not a sprinter but a marathon runner.  The world record in the dead lift is currently over 1,104 pounds!  That is strong!  But love is stronger--as the Song of Songs says, even stronger than death.  God is love.  Love endures all things.  We see this so clearly in the sufferings, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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One of the important aspects of a faith that powerfully loves others is hope.  Spiritual vision of God's glorious future promised to His people is what ensures we treat others in a way that refuses to let their sins and failures have the last word.  We see in the Cross of Christ it is God’s saving love, not our sin, that got the last word.

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Scripture says "love believes all things." Does this mean Christians are to be naive in our relationships? If we are to love others, does this mean we Christians are expected by God not to face reality in our relationships?  By faith, love wears a hard hat because it knows it lives in the midst of God's constructions zone. This Sunday our Lord will help us understand and grow in our loving one another.

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