John Winthrop's A Model For Christian Charity
John Winthrop’s sermon, “A Model For Christian Charity”, shares deeply religious reasons and views on loving one another in “brotherly affection”, putting others before ourselves, and caring for others as if their problems are our own. Winthrop does create very good and direct points as to why we should be more unified in love through Christ the Lord. My reaction while reading this sermon was that I found it surprisingly intriguing. Reading the different points Winthrop made about how we should treat others was somewhat convicting. If you really think about it, we are a very egocentric nation, constantly thinking about what we want and what our desires hold, versus putting others, especially the people that we care about, before ourselves.
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At the center of a lot of different religions, there is love. Even though many of those religions have different definitions and meanings of love, it has always been a universal concept that is very easy to grasp. Winthrop gives great conclusions of love. “Love is a real thing, not imaginary.” This is obvious because like many natural characteristics, love is a part of our human nature. We love even without realizing it. He goes on to tell us that love is necessary in being apart of Christianity. Christianity is about loving others as Christ loves us. How can you be of the Christian religion and not love? Winthrop then goes on to tell us the characteristics of love; how it is divine, free, active, strong, courageous etc. He tells us that the scripture tells us that the love of the God of Christianity is ultimately satisfying. Many of John Winthrop’s practices are still experienced today in America. Obviously Christianity is the main type of people still following and experiencing the practices of John Winthrop. I would say though, in this day in time, the practices that John Winthrop talked about in his sermon are not as prominent in America as it once was, for obvious reasons. People do not just walk around trying to look out for each other or automatically think to put others’ needs before their own or even to forgive someone so
At the center of a lot of different religions, there is love. Even though many of those religions have different definitions and meanings of love, it has always been a universal concept that is very easy to grasp. Winthrop gives great conclusions of love. “Love is a real thing, not imaginary.” This is obvious because like many natural characteristics, love is a part of our human nature. We love even without realizing it. He goes on to tell us that love is necessary in being apart of Christianity. Christianity is about loving others as Christ loves us. How can you be of the Christian religion and not love? Winthrop then goes on to tell us the characteristics of love; how it is divine, free, active, strong, courageous etc. He tells us that the scripture tells us that the love of the God of Christianity is ultimately satisfying. Many of John Winthrop’s practices are still experienced today in America. Obviously Christianity is the main type of people still following and experiencing the practices of John Winthrop. I would say though, in this day in time, the practices that John Winthrop talked about in his sermon are not as prominent in America as it once was, for obvious reasons. People do not just walk around trying to look out for each other or automatically think to put others’ needs before their own or even to forgive someone so