"⁴ Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.⁶ Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.⁷ Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.⁸ Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead,  ⁹ and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."   Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NRSV)

 I smiled as I heard the man at the conference declare to all of us gathered that it was nice to be with "those who love Jesus!"   My friends, there truly is something special about being with other believers, isn't there?  As you are aware, it always feels good to know we have others who are like us nearby. 

 But are we really all the same?  (Now don't write my next sentence for me- I am not interested in declaring who is in and who is out!  I am interested, however, in determining if it is enough for us to simply "love Jesus.")