Message “Required to Forgive?! Are You Serious?!” by Randy Roberts 
Part 1 - Forgiveness: Scandalous Yet Splendid!

Pastoral Welcome: Rob Mohr and Timothy Gillespie

Child Dedication: Zara Anjali Mathew - Darold Retzer

Scripture Reading: Colossians 3:12–14, TNIV - Frykman Family

Prayer: Bernard Taylor

Interview: Joelle Reuer

Note: Child dedications and baptisms are listed in the extras section of the DVD

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON

Welcome to Camp Meeting 2011! This time of the year is always exciting at the Loma Linda University Church! There are many opportunities for worship, community, study and service. I hope you plan to be a part of the overall experience. It will be worth your investment!

Our focus this year is forgiveness. Forgiveness is central to the biblical story of God and humans as well as the relationship of humans with other humans. There aren’t too many words in the human language that mean more than those three liberating words, I forgive you.

But as liberating as they are, they are often just that hard to utter. It sometimes calls for every ounce of spiritual strength we possess to look into the eyes of someone who has deeply injured us and tell them that they are forgiven. Sometimes we just plain don’t want to forgive. Other times we realize that we need to forgive, but then recognize that forgiveness will take time. And yet other times we want to forgive but somehow just can’t find a way to actually do it.

Where are you with forgiveness? Are you aware of your deep need for it? Have you felt the peace of God wash over you as his forgiveness becomes real to you? And what about others – how are you doing with forgiving those who need your forgiveness?

Our camp meeting sermon series – entitled, “Forgiveness: Scandalous Yet Splendid!” – will delve into the words of Scripture as they pertain to forgiveness, seeking to apply them to our daily lives.

This camp meeting, I urge you to consider a challenge: consider forgiving one person in your life from whom you have withheld forgiveness. I know there are many reasonsnot to forgive, but if you join us for this series, it just could be that by the end of camp meeting, you will have come to terms with some of the main obstacles to forgiveness, and will have made a very important step in that direction.

May God bless and strengthen us to that end.

Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor

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