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Not only does God love, but it is His essence. 1 John 4:8 tells us that God is love. And it goes on to say in verse 9, “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”

The greatest expression of God’s love for us is the sending of His Son, Jesus, to be the sacrifice for our sins, to pay the debt we could not pay. This example of love becomes the model by which we seek to love others. As 1 John 4 concludes, “We love because he first loved us” (v19) and “Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister” (v21). Therefore, we love others because God loves us.

The saying goes, “God doesn’t call the equipped, He equips the called.” We believe He does both! In fact, Ephesians 4:11-13 tells us that God is working through the equipped to equip others for the work to which He has called them.

¹¹ So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, ¹² to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up ¹³ until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

God equips us for the works to which He calls us so that we might grow in the image of His Son, Jesus.