Advent, Week 4: "Rooted In Love"

We want to love well, but many of us have been deeply hurt, making it hard for us to open ourselves to love at all. Even hearing that "God so loved the world..." can be hard because we cannot imagine a love like this. The trick is that we cannot receive love unless we are vulnerable, but we cannot be vulnerable unless we know we are loved. What are we to do? Who takes the risk of love and becomes vulnerable first? Jesus did. Pastor Glenn powerfully reminds us that we are not loved because Christ came; rather, Christ came because we are loved. And because Jesus became vulnerable, as a baby who would grow up to be rejected and crucified on a cross, we can now become rooted in love. We can live from Love and no longer for it.