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The summation of a great law
BY THE REVEREND
G.L, ROYAL,
KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Every -now -and -then, it is our custom to
recite the Ten Commandments with
responses in a Service of Praise. This
reminds us of The Great Law Moses brought
down from the mountain. We are refreshed
in the things that make. for a good society, a
good culture and a good citizenry. In St.
Matthew 22:35-40 we find a summation of
this great law as propounded by Jesus
Christ. He resolves it all into two categories,
love God, and love your neighbour as
yourself. A nation` built on these great
principles, if such were possible, would be a
paradise -on -earth.
MINISTER'S STUDY
Christ calls upon us to love God the
Father. It is a return of love to One who im-
mensely loves. When weprobe the Creation
Story in Genesis, we come up with
many human observations. We can say to
the question, "Why did God create us?",
that God was so filled with love that He
sought to resolve His sublime loneliness
with the creation of friends. With these
friends He sought communion, contact and
conversation, or, to use one word,
fellowship. We were meant to live freely
with Him in an oasis of warmth and
gentleness. We were made to be free.
This freedom became our bane for it led
us to revolt against the Divine. Despite our
sin, God as Father continues to love. He can-
not and will not remove His love for He is
God. In the fullness of time, Jesus Christ
came forth into the dilemma of humanity.
This Incarnation is the revelation of that
love that cannot die or cease to be. God con-
tinues to love that which has sinned against
Him. He desires us to come home. He seeks
in Christ to restore in newness the ruptured
relationship.
The beautiful thesis of St. John 3:16 is
revealing, "For God so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life." In St.
Matthew 22, Christ is telling us that the
believing Christian will return this love with
the fullest human love to God, is Father.
It is when we realize God's love in faith
and trust through Jesus Christ and His
atonement that we are enabled to love Him
back. Our greatest difficulty is accepting
His acceptance of us; this can only be done
Victim of child abuse to
speak at Pentecostal
Assembly in Goderich
The Reverend Maury Blair, executive.
director of Toronto Teen Challenge, will be
the guest speaker at Bethel Pentecostal
Assembly ' in Goderich on Sunday,,
November 25 at both the morning and even-
ing services.
Surviving a traumatic childhood of
neglect and savage abuse, Maury Blair was
loved, changed and led by God towards an
exciting ministry for youth in Toronto.
Toronto Teen Challenge was started in 1966.
It has now grown into a Canada -wide
ministry known as Breakthrough Youth
Ministries.
Rev. Blair, who has been nominated for a
Bicentennial Award for volunteer work in
Mississauga, will give his testimony of how
God healed his bitter childhood and allowed
him to use that experience to help others. He
is the author of the best-selling book, Child
of Woe.
The Reverend Gerry MacMillan invites
you to come and hear Rev. Blair this Sunday
at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. at Bethel Pentecostal
Assembly on Bayfield Rdad.This is your .
chance to hear how God's love can over-
come the worst childhood any person could
have!
when we have experienced.His-rove within
our faith.
The second aspect of the summation
regards our neighbour. This proves much
more difficult. There are people we like, and
there are people we 'don't like. Sometimes
hate enters our picture and we find
ourselves at heart injured. When Christ
equates the first and second aspects of sum-
mation, we have to take a second look at our
love as it regards God. How can we love
God, and hate our neighbour?
In the view of Jesus Christ, this ought to
be impossible. It is. If we love God, then we
must surely love what God loves. God loves
"the world" (St. John 3:16) and this means
He loves every human creature. He is not an
exclusivistic God; loving one and discard' g
another, His love flows out to all; He 1 e
the Ethiopian as He does the Anglo-Saxon;
all are one in His eyes. This points up a
oneness in humanity which should draw us
together. It is not idealism, triteness nor
naive nerve; rather, it is truth, the very
truth of God.
Loving one's neighbour means taking
seriously our place as Christians as we meet
and deal with all manner of peoples. They
all belong to God. Instead of seeing the Rus-
sian as an enemy, ought we not to see
him/her as children of the same God? Is this
not what is so seriously astray in our one-to-
one relationships? When we are come to
Christ as disciples, we take upon ourselves a
deep responsibility for others, and these
others mean everybody.
We take on this responsibility because we
have seen what God's love is all about; He
loves "the world" for He made it and
crafted it in love; thus, His Divine Expecta-
tion is that all who come to Him in the Name
of Jesus Christ will love what He loves, and
this means "who" Hg loves. This is the high
ground and only a complete and
unadulterated faith can reach it. It cannot
be attained through human strivings; it is
only reached when God meets us, calls us
and redeems us. It is only in Jesus Christ as
Saviour that we can learn love for
neighbour. .
The foregoing is only a human effort in ex-
pounding what love is in terms of Christ's
summation. If it is only a start on the right
and only road, well -and -good, for a start is
what we require. Let us be about our
Father's business!
Director to visit Huron
Mrs. Erica Shapiro, Director of Training
for Ministries for the Anglican Diocese of
Kimberley and Kuruman, South Africa, ar-
rives in London on November 30 for a ten-
day visit to the Anglican Diocese of Huron.
Mrs. Shapiro will share her special train-
ing and experience in cross-cultural educa-
tion events during an itinerary which in-
cludes billeting on the Kettle .Point Indian
Reserve and taking part in meetings at
Walpole Island and Moraviantown, accom-
panied by the Reverend Laverne Jacobs,
chairman of Huron's Native Ministries
Committee.
Mrs. Shapiro, who believes that everyone
has God-given gifts to be used in ministry,
will also share her training skills in a family
life education workshop at St. Paul's Chur-
ch, Clinton, on December 6 'and a com-
municating skills workshop at Holy Trinity
Church, Chesley, on December 7.
At other events scheduled in London and
Mitchell, Mrs. Shapiro will present "The
Dry Land Shall Be Glad", an audio-visual
depicting life in her home Diocese, part of
the Church of the Province of South Africa
(CPSA).
Born in Benoni, South Africa, Mrs.
Shapiro was educated at Durban Universi-
ty, South Africa, and Boston University,
USA. In the early 1970s, while working at the
Christian Institute in Cape Town, she met
and married the Reverend Ivor Shapiro, an
Anglican priest.
Mrs. Shapiro has wide experience in
directing missions and retreats.
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