Love is a Benchmark for Knowing Your Family Status

How do you love your brothers and sisters at GCT like Jesus has loved you? First, you believe that as a Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Christ, with the power of the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to understand the issues of the heart brought before you by others. Next, you move and interact with others in the same ways Christ does, at the heart level, caring for the other person more than you are caring about yourself. Then, you desire to be in relationship with others, even as others are not like you. You develop eyes to see those who are in the background, alone, forgotten and isolated. You tune your ears to hear words of hopelessness, fear, anxiety and condemnation. You keep the attitude that you always have something to give—yourself. Give yourself up for other brothers and sisters as Christ did for the Church (Eph. 5:25). We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death (1 John 3:14). Who is on your heart to go and love sacrificially?