The Senior Pastor and founder of Zion Flames Ministries International (ZFMI),Apostle Promise Momo, has urged Christians to demonstrate love and kindness as they celebrate Christmas.
In his goodwill message to Nigerians to commemorate this year’s Christmas celebration issued on Sunday, said “The greatest commandment as we know is love . “For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another” (1 John 3:11).
According to him,”We spend time on what we deem important. For many of us these choices are valid: time with family and friends, work, prayer, serving the poor, fighting for rights, protesting wrongs. But as the Scripture reminds us, “And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing” (1 Cor. 13:3).
“Even though we have the freedom to set our own priorities, Jesus made a point of defining certain ones of them for us: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and most important commandment.
“The second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Matt. 22:37-39). Love, then, is not a gray area the Scriptures. Jesus gave love priority over all other Christian virtues. Every thought, response, and act of goodwill must first pass through the fine filter of love, or it means nothing at all.
“As we celebrate the birth of our Lord and saviour Christ Jesus it is important to reach out to the less privileged, Christians and non Christians that is love, that is how to shine the light,” Apostle Momo said .
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