The Full Extent of His Love (and Brick Lane’s Vision for 2024)

John
Written By Steve Estes

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Speaker: Steve Estes
Scripture: John 13:1-2
December 10, 2023

John 13:1-2, NIV: It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. The evening meal was being served , and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.

Sermon Outline

1. Jesus washes his disciples’ feet

  • Jesus had already loved them 1,000 ways

  • Now He shows them the full extent of his love

2. Jesus enables us to love him and other people without exhaustion

3. Brick Lane goals for 2024

  • Ministries

    • Public worship

    • Internal ministries

    • Expand local outreach

    • International outreach

  • What these ministries need

    • A building

    • Staff

    • Finances

    • Prayer

Steve Estes

Steve Estes has been senior pastor at Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, Pennsylvania, for over thirty-five years. 

Steve’s books and other writings began with his longtime friendship with Joni Eareckson Tada. As teenagers, they grappled with why God allowed Joni’s paralysis in a swimming accident in the Chesapeake Bay. Steve left for college . . . they kept in touch . . . she liked the style of his letters. When her 1976 autobiography Joni spawned thousands of reader responses, she asked Steve to join her in crafting a follow-up. The result was A Step Further in 1978.

Later, Wycliffe Bible Translators commissioned Steve to write the biography of former college friend Chet Bitterman, a Wycliffe linguist who was kidnapped and murdered by political terrorists in Colombia in 1981. Other books and articles followed, including When God Weeps (with Joni) and A Better December (a giveaway book for non-Christian friends at Christmas.)

Steve was educated at Westminster Theological Seminary, Columbia Bible College and Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has taught homiletics at Westminster and is a board member of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation.

But Steve would say his most significant life achievement was persuading college classmate Verna Stoltzfus to marry him in 1974.  They now have eight children and more grandchildren than can fit in a van.

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