ECCLESIOLOGICAL ETCHING
October 22, 2021
Does love exist apart from the entities that share and receive love? This was a strange thought I had as I was driving back to the church after a meeting yesterday. Some of you are probably thinking that Bruce must have been really bored. That’s probably true, but don’t we talk about love as a force, a power… as if it could stand alone? We speak of love being poured into someone, yet when water is poured into a glass, the water is something other than the pitcher or the glass. Of course, 1 John 4 suggests that God is love which implies no separation between love and God. In the end, I wonder if such questions are interesting for discussion purposes, but if we find ourselves too lost in the speculation, do we end up ignoring the real work of sharing love?
At the end of the day, I seek your assistance, Lord God, as I love friend, enemy and anyone else who has yet to receive a designation. Amen.
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Excellent question. Currently spending a lot of time reflecting on how to arrange and present all of our classes personal anecdotes about the Holy Spirit. As I study each submission, I note the essence of each story as coincidence, timing, odds-defying, exactly what was needed, etc. I hadn’t looked at it that way, but should. As the third part of God where God is love, Love created us in His image, and continues to consume us constantly, constrained only by the respect for our terrible free will.
Roger
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Roger – folks are looking forward to seeing this publication… lots of excited talk. Interesting, I just watched a news piece on the BBC about free will vs. determinism, but physicists arguing one side or the other. Interesting stuff, though I still have my opinion.