Forgiveness
7. We envision our members and friends willingly accepting God's love and forgiveness and consistently offering love and forgiveness to others.
We see our members and friends:
• Loving, trusting, and obeying God, letting God be the authority over our will.
• Entering into a personal relationship with Jesus the Christ and being reconciled to God.
• Living out God's call to love all people, including those we perceive as lovable and unlovable, in the same way God loves us.
• Committed to being open to God and to each other.
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“He said to them, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and first
commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”
—Matthew 22:37–39
“But by the grace of God I am what I am,
and his grace toward me has not been in vain.”
—1 Corinthians 15:10
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies and pray for those who
persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven....”
—Matthew 5:44–45
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