Labor of Love

9-26-21Sermon Notes“Labor of Love”

We will celebrate our 175th Anniversary this Sunday! Bishop Debra Wallace-Padgett will be preaching, and we will have a combined service at 10:00, spotlighting not only our great Celebration Praise Team, but also our Traditions choir and musicians. The children will be singing, we will have a video on the history and timeline of the church, and there is a rumor that John Wesley and Susanna Wesley will make an appearance! I hope you will join us, either in person (please RSVP online or by calling the church office) or via our livestream.

Bishop Wallace-Padgett will be preaching on the theme of “Labor of Love,” a fitting ending to our Labor theme for September. In John chapter 13, we see that Jesus’ time with the disciples was short. If he was ever going to tell them anything, it would have to be soon. He was going to walk a road he would have to walk alone. He gave them the a command to remember him by…an example of an unselfish labor of love…He loved them sacrificially, with understanding, and with pre-meditated forgiveness. Here’s the story from John 13: 31-35:

31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. 33 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

See you Sunday!
Pastor Sam