Sermons From Good Shepherd Lutheran Church In Raleigh, Nc

Gospel - Luke 6:27-38 In our own daily brutal and beautiful lives, loving our enemies doesn’t mean we have to like them, feel warm and fuzzy about them, or even “get over” whatever they have done to us, as if that is a quick and easy thing to do. It means that, despite how wrong they were or how wrong they are or how wrong they will be, we seek their good. When they treat us poorly, we treat them well. We don’t have to be friends. We may even continue to be enemies. And still, we love. We seek the good… We love because God loves us – extremely, even when we act like God’s enemy, even when we neglect or harm the Jesus we meet in our neighbors, even when no one would recognize us as Christians. God loves us, even then. God is always seeking our good in relationship with the good of the whole world.