Greatest Commandment

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
Matthew 22:34-40

The past few weeks we have been looking at the Greatest Commandment in the Bible. Jesus said that the two most important things in life are to love God with everything we have and love everyone around us as much as we love ourselves.

As a youth group we came up with a couple of ideas of how we can love God and love our neighbors. Here are our lists so far, we will be continually adding to them.

Love God:
Come to church
Bring friends to church
Read the Bible
Pray
Worship God
Follow in God’s footsteps

Love Our Neighbors:
Help the elderly
Care for neighbor’s pets
Give them food if they need it
Have respect for them

Loving God and loving our neighbors are two things that our youth group will be focusing on this year, so keep the ideas coming!