One of the elder's preached Sunday morning since the pastor is out of town. The text was John 13, and the theme was - love one another. This was a timely sermon because our church is beginning to get larger. It's easier to get lost in the crowd and not know everyone's names. It's also easier to fall into set patterns of gravitating to some versus others. I'm thankful for this challenge to love and, as an integral part, to know one another in greater depth. As Ron said during the sermon, "How can we love people we don't know?", and this is something I've been thinking about for some time. In my opinion, one mistake is to assume that we are more alike than we really are. Thus it would be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that I don't need to learn anything more about you. I already know you because we must be similar especially if we are part of the same church. I don't need to stop and listen to a different perspective because I'v...