Cary Cox, from 1 John 3:11-15. The apostle John now turns to the evidence of Love. If we are God’s children, truly born again, we will show it by loving our brothers and sisters, our church family. God’s children love one another. They just do. If you don’t, you still belong to the devil, John says. It’s easy to embrace a lofty ideal of love, but it’s much more difficult to actually love real, imperfect people in a visible, local church for about 80 years! But this is what God calls us to do in Christ.