It is difficult to be the church. What we have been asked to do here is not easy. Jesus' directive to love one another sounds like it should be a fairly straightforward thing to do. Now, I don't want to shock anyone here this morning, but I do have to admit that there have been times in our history that there have been disagreements in the church; disagreements about what it means to love one another. Some of those disagreements are over what it really means to love, and some of those disagreements are over just to whom the  "one another" is referring. Paul's writings to the church at Galatia this morning, and for next week, drop us right smack-dab in the middle of those disagreements. Let's read over the shoulder of the Galatians and see if Paul's words can give us direction, as well.

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