the way of love

The Way Of Love (The Episcopal Church)

1.     TURN again and again to God

2.     LEARN Jesus’s ways through scripture and holy reading.

3.     PRAY and dwell intentionally with God every day.

4.     WORSHIP God weekly through community praise, thanksgiving, and petition.

5.     BLESS one another by giving our lives away in love.

6.     GO across borders to join in solidarity and heal brokenness

7.     REST in God’s grace, because the revolution is not ultimately up to us.

 

The way of Love

The way of Jesus

The Way

 

When Jesus said he is the way, the truth, the life, this is what he is talking about

A way

A way of life

A way of being and doing

 

He does not ask us to walk the way of domination

or embrace the way of wealth

 

He does not tell us to consent to an ideology

to accept a set of rules

or take seven happy hops to heaven

 

Jesus asks us to engage in a relationship

opening ourselves up through study, prayer and worship

 

Jesus asks us to be a part of a community in which we bless one another

by offering unconditional love

and creating a space where our connection to all that is Sacred can blossom freely.

 

Jesus asks us to under stand that the community is not a protective bubble

but a petri dish in which love and passion can grow

and that it is simply the starting place

from which we are to go forth

into the world

 

crossing the normal boundaries establish by human creatures

 

the boundaries of nationality

ideology

economics and class

education

color

creed

 

crossing those boundaries not to coerce and control

but to welcome and include

 

Jesus also reminds us that it is not about us

not really

but about the relationship

 

it is about the fact that the Sacred is present in us

and we are present in the Sacred

and this reality called the Spirit

blows like the wind, driving us from comfortable place

and burns like fire, searing us with a passion for justice and equity

 

and that the Sacred uses us

as we engaged

and learn

and grow and risk

 

to change the world

 

through the way of love