As we wrap up our week on loving people, we look today at how we can love the church as God does.

Jesus says we will be known by the way we love each other.

Would people know you're a Christian by the way you love your brothers and sisters?

People are messy, it's true. We all are. And yet Jesus saw our worth and loved us in the midst of our messiness.

How can you mimic that same love today as you seek to love his church. Today we'll look at the perspective

and affections of Jesus for his people. And may our hearts and minds be transformed as a result.

Welcome to the first 15 Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John 1335.

Scripture says,

By this, all people will know that you are my disciples

if you have love for one another.

The words of Jesus in Matthew 6,9, radically changed the way God's people are to relate to him.

Scripture says, pray then like this.

Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Through Jesus,

we now come before God as his child.

And because God is our father,

fellow believers are now our spiritual family.

Other disciples of Jesus are our brothers and sisters.

And church is now a spiritual family reunion designed to be centered around the love

and goodness of our father.

1 John 3 1 says,

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