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The Pastor yesterday morning used the passage from Mark 12:28-34. Here is an excerpt from the English Standard Translation.
And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these.".
Sometimes we just need someone to point something out and I thought this was a good point to make.
Christians many times get distracted by many peripheral items. In this passage, Jesus is spelling out the essence of Christianity.
It also points out the difficulty of fulfilling these two commands.
Posted by Ted at May 2, 2005 8:15 PM