"Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer. And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me, but you can't come where I am going. So now I am giving you a new commandment: 

Love each other. 

Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."

John 13:31-35 NLT

"You lot, who bring all your differences, your ethnicity, your backgrounds and experiences, all your goodness, your mistakes, your potential, your arguing and all your missing the point & not quite gettin me.

You lot. 

I love you. 

I've taught you, served you, washed your feet, and shown you what love looks like, and if you watch a little longer you'll get how big and wide and deep my love is for you.

And as that sinks in, choose to love one another in the same way, no matter what shape the world is in, or how the world wants to shape you, love one another like I have loved you. 

It won't be prosperity (or poverty) or powerful sermons or wonderful churches or whatever direction the culture moves and changes you in that will prove you are my followers.

It's gonna be love. 

How you choose to love. 

Love that transcends family, love that breaks down barriers, love that sees, steps towards, love that acts.

That's my Easter message whanau. 

Love one another. Just like I am loving you now.

Arohanui."

Jesus

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