Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In season 2, Pastor Jim is leading us in a study of Mark. Today’s passage is Mark 12:28-34
Which is the foremost/greatest commandment? What matters most to God? What is REALLY important to our Creator/Designer, the One to whom we must all give an answer for our lives? What does God desire from us?
- Love for God from our hearts: Devotion
- Love for God from our soul: Desire
- Love for God from our mind: Determination
- Love for God from our strength: Discipline
“There’s nothing moderate about loving God with all our heart and all our soul, all our mind and all our strength.”
Richard Bauckham
“A deficit in our love of neighbor always points to a deficit in our love of God. We must first focus on loving God rightly. Restoring the vertical relationship is the first step to righting the horizontal relationship.”
Jen Wilkin, In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character
“Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately.”
Kenneth Boa, author and Bible teacher
