All the way through Jewish and Christian history God's love has been displayed. In the gospels John seemed to have the greatest revelation of the love of God. He even had a revelation of how much Jesus loved him as he was secure enough to rest on Christ's breast, as often as he could. Paul told us in his epistle to the Romans that God had shed His love abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
But it was Jesus who gave us the command to love. To love God with all our hearts, minds, and strength; and to love our neighbour as ourselves. He then told us at the last supper that He was issuing another commandment. That we Christians love each other, so that the world would know that we were His disciples.
What happened? Two thousand years of grief, schism, bitterness, hatred, warfare, slaughter, and butchery. That's just between ourselves. How have we treated the world, the ones who are supposed to see this love?
We would rather not go there as it is too painful.
But Church it's got to end now.
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