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Saturday 13th February 2010 8:57 PM

Dear Friends,

You know, there is a great verse in the Bible which Jesus states sums up everything we are really about as disciples. Yet it is a verse that is often twisted in our minds at times. Not deliberately - well I hope not. The verse is from Matthew 7, verse 12 which reads: "In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the prophets".

How do we twist this verse? Well, how often do we joke about it and say, "Jesus said do unto others before they do it to you" or "Get them before they get you"? I suppose that is the philosophy of some governments - drop a bomb on them before they get the chance to drop a bomb on you.

Yet just think about it for a moment. If we, as Christians, really lived up to this teaching we would transform the world. On the world stage, instead of just being out for our own interests all the time, we would ask the question, "If I was in their situation how would I want them to act towards me".

Take Haiti and the terrible earthquake with such a loss of life. If that had been our own town or country how would we want the international community to act towards us?

And yet this teaching goes right down to each one of us as an individual. If in all we do and say we treat other people how we want to be treated by them, then our own little worlds would be transformed and transformed for the better.

Jesus says that this teaching sums up the law and the prophets. There is another little phrase which also sums up the law and the prophets and that is "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and love your neighbour as yourself". When it comes down to the bottom line it is all about love. Loving God and loving each other.

Your friend and minister,

Terry.

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