“When
love, acceptance and forgiveness prevail, the church becomes what Jesus was in
the world: a center of love, designed for the healing of broken people, and a
force for God… One of the greatest services a church can offer a community is
to provide a place for people to be brought to wholeness – to be healed
physically, spiritually and emotionally… People are fragmented. They are torn.
Life doesn’t work for them because they are without Jesus... They need a place
to be healed.” (Jerry Cook).
Love, Acceptance and Forgiveness
Love, acceptance, forgiveness – those three things are absolutely essential to any ministry that will consistently bring people to maturity and wholeness. If the Church is to be the force for God in the world that it should be, it must learn to love people, accept them and forgive them.