<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Forwarded - Part 1 A: </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Judy <judy_boli@ecunet.org> </div><div>Date: 1/23/17 7:01 AM </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"><br></font></span></div><div style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Dear Friends,</font></span></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">This Sunday’s sermon is entitled “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love” or “Jesus Said: ‘FISH!’” and deals with all the lessons.<span> </span>Here it is: </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#000000">Do you remember the old Sunday school song: “I will make you fishers of men?”<span> </span>This morning we heard where that song came from.<span> </span>We heard Jesus call his first four disciples- Andrew, Peter, James, and John and tell them he would teach them to fish for people.<span> </span>He calls us to do the same thing, not with first century methods- but with twenty-first century methods.<span> </span>Many of our techniques may change- we use telephones and cars and vans and television and CD players, but one constant remains: LOVE!<span> </span>Close to 100 years after Jesus died, the Roman Emperor Hadrian sent a man named Aristides to spy on Christians to see why they were growing so strong.<span> </span>His answer has rung down through the ages: “Behold, how they love one another!”<span> </span>Love is probably the most important Christian value that makes Jesus and the church attractive to people.<span> </span>It’s our best evangelism tool.<span> </span>Remember, Jesus gave us only one commandment: “You must love each other, just as I have loved you.<span> </span>If you love each other, everyone will know that you are my disciples” (John <u></u><span tabindex="0" class="aBn" data-term="goog_142908159"><span class="aQJ">13:34</span></span><u></u>-35).<span> </span>So you can see that love (not just how they felt about each other, but how they treated each other) became the hallmark of Jesus’ followers, of the Christian Church…well- most of the Christian Church, because Paul’s church in Corinth had a real problem with love.<span> </span></font></font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><Continued in Part 1 B></span></font></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">For anyone who is interested, this sermon and updated African-American wisdom statements are posted on our parish’s web site under “Sermons & Stuff”. The address is: </font><a href="http://www.stpaulsepisag.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.stpaulsepisag.org/&source=gmail&ust=1485277140028000&usg=AFQjCNFca280n8jcZVQ-wkrQztnKSJTl6g"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Times New Roman">http://www.stpaulsepisag.org</font></u></a><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> .</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Blessed preaching,</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Judy Boli</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">St. Paul's Episcopal Church</font></span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3"></font><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">Saginaw, Michigan</font></span></p></div>
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