“Some people see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ Others dream of things that never were and ask WHY NOT?” Those words of George Bernard Shaw contain the sermon for today.
Jesus blew the lid off conventional morality in the 1st century and the 21st century by instructing his followers to ‘Love your enemies.’ The first hearers were shocked by it. Theologians through the ages have tried to explain it. The survival of humanity today may depend on our living it. I want to talk today about ‘why not?’ Why not love our enemies?
A. Why Not the Way of Love?
When the Apostle Paul wrote his immortal love poem in I Corinthians 13 to the cantankerous church at Corinth, he began by saying “And now I will show you a more excellent way.” If the way of love is a more excellent way, if the way of love …