Words and Love [Easter 4B - I John 3:16-24]
The Rt. Rev. Jeremiah Williamson I John 3:16-24 Words and Love St. Peter’s, Hobart If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. Eloquent prophecies: they will come to an end; tongues: they will cease; knowledge: it too will come to an end. You know these words; you have heard them at weddings. They are St. Paul’s words; they are words about words. Beautiful words; timeless words. But also words written to articulate the stark limitation of our words. Proclaimed to you today by a man who wrote words about a passage of ancient words, from the first letter of John, that implore us to not love in word and speech alone. Because, while words are great, words are not enough. But this, an election year, we will