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This week's verses are 1 John 4:20-21 : If anyone says “I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too. John is talking here about the topic of godly love. It's something that comes up a lot in church. We all freely say that we love God. But John gives us a test to measure whether that is true. Do we love our fellow Christians? Most of us don't, really. We gossip and form factions. We keep things fake and shallow where we can. We come up with excuses not to give. We avoid eye contact when they're looking for help and volunteers. Our needs always come first. We can rarely even justify spending a few minutes in prayer for each other. But Jesus asked us to love each other and care for his sheep. When you think of the Christians aroun...