Week 13: The Messiah’s Family · August 5

Read John 15:12-17

¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

Week 13 Reflection Questions:

As you read this passage that speaks about what it means to be family to the Messiah, what stands out most to you?  What do you learn about God in each?  What do you learn about yourself?