A teacher sent home a report card with this notation to the parents, "Alvin excels in initiative, group integration, responsiveness, and activity participation. Now if he would only learn to read and write!"

We chuckle, but there's a serious point here. We have excelled in almost everyway imaginable as human beings, except in the one way that matters most. We have not learned to love.

So we come to the close of this series of sermons on "The Christian Walk". We talk about the ultimate call -- the most distinctive characteristic of our walk -- our greatest need: Love.

Isn't that a beautiful description in Ephesians 5, verses 1 and 2 which we read a moment ago? Paul calls us to the Christian walk and he does it in an unforgettable way. Listen to him again: "Therefore be imitators of God, …