Love Finds a Face | The Rev. Art Going

A sermon on John 15:12-17, the command to love one another. Where last week's vine-and-branches gave the wide angle, this week brings the close up. Fr. Art connects Lewis' trap of loving humanity in the abstract, and Bonhoeffer's wish-dream from Life Together: the imagined community always destroys the real one. The remedy is John Stott learning to pray for his parishioners by name. And ours is to look for a shepherd who learns names, prays them, and notices when a face is missing. Drawing on Martin Marty and Gabriel Marcel's disposability, Fr. Art reminds us that incarnation is God's supreme act of turning, tilting, bending toward us. We love because he first loved us.

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