The Greatest Is Love

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Pastor Chris Ogden | March 30, 2025

For many of us who grew up attending churches, we recall instructions we were given to believe certain things to be true, to perform particular rituals to demonstrate our obedience, and to abstain from specific sins. Not only has this pattern of believe / perform / abstain / repeat been prevalent in our generations, it dominated the Hebrew faith during Jesus’ earthly ministry.

Jesus taught a better way: love. In Mark 12, Jesus answered a question about the greatest commandment by quoting the commandments to love God and to love each other. These two instructions are interlinked and equally important, and they were demonstrated in everything that Jesus taught and did. This must be our foundation for the life that Jesus wants for us, that we, too, love God and love each other first and most of all.

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