Today is the feast of St John the Evangelist. Over the Christmas period the words of the first chapter of his Gospel are read often, explaining the incarnation: ‘The Word became flesh’. John focusses very much on the theme of love and he calls himself ‘the disciple Jesus loved’. He shares with us in his Gospel and in his epistles this message of being loved for who we are, not for what we do or for avoiding sin, but simply because we are. Jesus loved sinners when he lived on earth and he reached out to them with his message of love, not condoning their sin but not condemning them because of it either. This is Good News for us all.
The readings for today are Psalm 117, 1 John 1, John 21:19b-end and the reflection I gave at the 10.30pm SLT service is below.



