Your Sermon

Your Sermon
Francis of Assisi said,
“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today” 
                                                                                                       Francis of Assisi.
Dear Christian, when people see your sermon today what will they see?
Will they see negative things or positive things?
Will they see someone who is judgmental, pushy, bombastic, inconsiderate, or worse a bigot?
OR
Will they see someone who is loving, caring understanding. Someone who is willing to listen to them even if they disagree with them?
Is your sermon based on the teachings of Jesus?
Jesus said,
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 
Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  
This is the first and greatest commandment.  
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  
All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” 
                                                                         Matthew 22:36-40.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”
Matthew 5:43-45.
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” 
    Matthew 7:12.
Are you living the life Christ wants you to live.
Francis of Assisi although not a gospel writer got things right when he wrote,

“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love,

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,

to be loved, as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” 

                                                                                                      Francis of Assisi.
When people see your sermon today do they see God’s love reflected in your life?
Please think about it.