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John 14: 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Day by Day Bishop Richard of Chichester Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits thou hast given me, for all the pains and insults thou hast borne for me. O most merciful redeemer, friend and brother, may I know thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, and follow thee more nearly, day by day. Amen.

Day by Day Godspell I want to know thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day. Amen.

Revelation 2: 4 I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.

John 14: 23 -24 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. ”

John 15: 9 -17 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

John 15: 9 -17 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.

John 15: 9 -17 Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit— fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. This is my command: Love each other.

Ezekiel 36: 26 -28 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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In a world where everyone demands their rights the New Testament is a revolutionary document

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Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, 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.

Karl Barth, 1886 – 1968 Faith is awe in the presence of the divine incognito; it is the love of God that is aware of the qualitative difference between God and man and God and the world.

Karl Barth, 1886 – 1968 “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. ”

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Matthew 7: 21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, ’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

The world says “Follow your heart” The world says “Believe in yourself” The world says “Discover yourself” The world says “Be true to yourself” Jesus says “Follow me” Jesus says “Believe in me” Jesus says “Deny yourself” Jesus says “Be true to me”

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