Sermon: “Dying to Self; Living in Covenant” from Jeffrey Schooley

On Maundy Thursday, the Church recommits to our Lord’s call to love one another. This is His “mandatum” (command) on our lives. As commands go, its pretty good and, ideally, pleasing. But as 1 John makes clear, love is less an action and more a location; it is a place in which we abide with God. The pressure to always do loving things is too much, unless love is where we make our home.

Scripture References: Psalms 116:1-2, 1 John 4:7-12, Psalms 116:12-19

Related Topics: Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Reconciliation | More Sermons from Jeffrey Schooley

From Series: "A Ministry of Reconciliation"

The call of Lent is to face squarely our sins. But merely facing sin is not the goal. The goal in Lent (and all Christian discipleship) is to be redeemed into Jesus’ ministry of reconciliation. This Lent, we will explore the engaged and complex process of reconciliation. This is no “forgive and forget” series (which is, itself, a myth perpetuated by the unforgiven), but a penetrating analysis of what it means to be ministers of reconciliation. And for the sake of transparency, this series was written against the backdrop of the racial unrest following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020. But it should be clear that the process of reconciliation is applicable to issues both macro and micro in scale, good for conflicts between races and good for conflicts between spouses.