Thursday, April 19, 2018

DENNIS Good Morning. I’m Dennis Gossett, with Central United Methodist Church. In the most famous verse in all of the Bible, we find that God so loved the world. This verse can be found on handwritten signs at ballgames, on billboards, on t-shirts, and hats. Those who are not Christians can often quote John 3:16. So, what does it mean, “God so loved the world?” First, it is a declaration that God does indeed love the world that He created. Some may feel that God simply created and left everything to handle itself. If God really does love the world, then He is not a mean tyrant, as he is often made out to be. Love is God’s greatest ultimate attribute. God is love and it changes everything. Second, this declaration is how he loves the world. The word love carries with it a lot of different interpretations. For some, love is the sappy, gooey kind of emotion that one finds in the movies, which brings two people together who find ultimate fulfillment in each other. For others, it is the kind of love for one’s self, which searches for fulfillment at the expense of other people. God’s love, however, is much better than that.