The South Barrow Bulletin 2014 16/02/2014 | Page 2

BIBLE READINGS
1 John 4: 7-21
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God.
Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love
does not know God, for God is love. And God showed his love for us by
sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through
him. This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one
another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives
in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.
We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with
us, because he has given us his Spirit. And we have seen and tell others
that the Father sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and
God lives in union with us. And we ourselves know and believe the love
which God has for us.
God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God
lives in union with them. Love is made perfect in us in order that we may
have courage on the Judgement Day; and we will have it because our life
in this world is the same as Christ's. There is no fear in love; perfect love
drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone
who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment.
We love because God first loved us. If we say we love God, but hate
others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if
we do not love others, whom we have seen. The command that Christ has
given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.

John 2: 1-11
Two days later there was a wedding in the town of Cana in Galilee. Jesus'
mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the
we ding. When the wine had given out, Jesus' mother said to him, “They
are out of wine.”

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