4 | November 2025
President’s Pen Beloved, Let Us Love One Another
Beloved, let us love one another… Why? John gives us so many reasons packed into this brief section! Love is from God! When we love one another, we display the reality that we have been born again and know God. When we fail to love, it displays the reality that we do not know God because God is love! God has perfectly displayed his love for us through sending his Son, Jesus Christ, into the world! Believers have seen and experienced God’s love and, therefore, must share that love. God has further displayed his love for us in that his love moved first. He did not wait for us to love him! Outside of Christ, nobody loves God. God displays his love by sending his Son to be the propitiation for our sins while we were still sinners! God’s incredible love for us both motivates and mandates us to love one another. When we do so, the invisible God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. Beloved, let us love one another… I’d like you to consider a couple of questions on this command from the Lord. What can you do this week to display the love of Christ to your church family? Is your church marked by Christian love? What can you do this week to display the love of Christ to your spouse/children? Is your home marked by Christian love? As always, I want to remind you: there are amazing resources in our state to help church leaders faithfully proclaim Christ in their communities. You can always reach me at president@scbo.org. “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.” The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (1 Jn 4:7-12). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
Grace and Peace, Adam Pursel SCBO President
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