I want to mention a new members class beginning on Tuesday evening from 7-9pm at the church. If you're interested in learning more about Laurelton and exploring membership, it would be great to have you. We will probably meet in my office. In our reading for today Jesus warns his disciples that their road won't be an easy one. In many ways the world we live in is opposed to God. Jesus stood for love and welcome; for that he was persecuted and killed. He warns the disciples that the same fate will often await them. Fortunately, in the end we can trust that love will overcome hatred. In the end all will be well. Even now we are not alone. Christ is with us through the Holy Spirit as we bear witness to his love in this challenging world.
God bless,
Sam
John 15:18-25
18”If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world—therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
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