Selected from The Worship Center I believe the Bible is the real word of God, it's His message of love for us and hope and salvation. Reading and meditating on it will change your life. It reveals how God loves us so much. We have Jesus who is God in human flesh so we can better understand him and what He wants to do in our lives. Jesus says in John 13 verses 34 and 35, “I give you a new commandment. Love each other just as much as I have loved you. For when you demonstrate the same love I have for you by loving one another everybody will know that you're my true followers.” That’s what Jesus says will reveal that we are His true disciples. He says this is what we will be known for. It’s what Jesus wants us to be like, what we should be about. When you read the New Testament, God’s constantly bringing the church, Christians, back to the fact that this is what we should be like, this is who we should be. We can look around the religious world, at many in the churches and this isn’t what God intends us to be. By what they are saying and what they are doing, it’s clear that there’s a need for people to walk in the love like Jesus has for us. This is what we do and try to do. Jesus says, by this people will know you're walking with me. Not the kind of car you have, not the labels on your clothes and accessories. Not your income or job title. Not even your looks or social media followers. Above all else, we need more of the Jesus kind of love. That’s number 1.  There are a lot of issues that are important, a lot of doctrines people like to argue over, and theological positions that people might break fellowship over, but Jesus is saying over and above all those things, if you love the people in your circle, if you love the other people who love me, it will be plain and clear that you are a follower of Jesus. I have to tell you that right now, people don't know us for our love. That’s not what they think of when they think about Christians. Jesus has to tell us that we will be known by our love because that’s not really what we’re known for. They know us for what we’re against. They know us by our politics. They know us by our rules. They know us by who we accept and don’t accept. I think if you asked the people around us, what Christians are known for, what do you think about Christians, I think you’d hear all kinds of things, some good, some not, but probably you wouldn’t hear that we are so loving, so caring, so much like Jesus walking the earth. There is so much wrong with the world right now that we can’t do anything about. There’s a lot of things that need changing that none of us on our own can change. But one thing I can do is get better at letting God love people through me. If I want to demonstrate the presence of Jesus on my life, if I want to help create a hunger in them for the Lord, I can get better at intentionally letting Jesus love them through me. People like to argue against Christianity, against churches, against Jesus, against God, against the people of God, and you probably can’t win them over intellectually. But I believe that God is raising up a people who are so close to Jesus and so into His word, who are so full of the Holy Spirit, that people will know that Jesus is real because of the love, the caring, the peace that is flowing in their lives to those around them. That is what makes you so different from the world. Each morning, I can get up and ask the Lord to help me to know Him more, and help me to yield to Him more. Help me to love people like He does, and to love them with the love that He has loved me with. The world has gotten so hard so calloused, and even many Christians are hard and calloused.. in fact a lot of them are getting pretty mean! Our world is so lacking in the number one priority of the Kingdom of God, that even most Christians don’t realize it.