We need the love, compassion, and benevolence that marked the early Church, and it must be birthed and sustained in us by God.

Draw near to God and let his will guide you

Turn around and believe that the Good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that Good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that Good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.