Enjoy your flight
October 6, 2019
Ready for Take-Off: Enjoy Your Flight
Having prepared us for the things we might face during the flight, the flight attendant makes one last statement: “Sit back and enjoy your flight and please let me know if you need anything.” Jesus also reminds us that He has prepared us for life so that we might have full lives of joy and, in that joy, can bear fruit as we share our faith and offer Christ to the world. And if we have need, he also reminds us He is with us…all we have to do is ask. So…its time for us to take flight, and to reach out in love and hope to all who need to know Jesus or who need a church family. Let us live our mission in the Joy of Christ Jesus!
John 15:9-17
“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.