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...