Sermon: How should Christians relate to others?

This is the message (unedited) I delivered at the Shipai Friendship Presbyterian Church in Taipei, Taiwan, this Sunday (06 Apr 2014).

HOW SHOULD CHRISTIANS RELATE TO OTHERS?
Luke 6:27-31

(For illustration only)

One afternoon, a friend asked me, “You don’t look happy today?” He was right. I was not happy that day because I had a quarrel with my wife that morning. (We are OK now.) What determines the state of our emotion – happiness, sadness, anger, etc.? For me, more than anything else, it’s relationship.

A visitor who carried his Cross

I wrote this poem on Good Friday 2000 in Khartoum, Sudan. Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus’ cross [Luke 23:26] is one of the characters in the Bible I admire and want to emulate.

A VISITOR WHO CARRIED HIS CROSS
A Good Friday Poem

Brother Simon,
What brought you
all the way from Cyrene
to Jerusalem
the day they crucified
the Lord?