“People Matter More Than Things”

Lead Pastor, Stephen Macaluso

 

“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: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  There is no commandment greater than these.”          Mark 12:30, 31

 

Valuing your relationships with others means:

 

1. Asking:

           What’s worth my time?

 

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.                 Ephesians 2:10

 

But Martha was the jittery type and was worrying over the big dinner she was preparing.  She came to Jesus and said, “Sir, doesn’t it seem unfair to You that my sister just sits here while I do all the work?  Tell her to come and help me.”  But the Lord said to her, “Martha, dear friend, you are so upset over all these details!  There is really only one thing worth being concerned about.  Mary has discovered it—and I won’t take it away from her!”     Luke 10:40, 41 (LB)

 

2.  Asking:

          Who’s worth my trust?

 

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.  What can man do to me?”        Hebrews 13:5

 

“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.  And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”      Matthew 10:29-31

 

3.  Asking:

          Who do I need to put on my calendar?

 

“A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this all men will know that you are My disciples.  If you love one another.”            John 13:34, 35

 

 

~ There is always a risk

to love ~