Redemption.

No one is too far gone to outreach God's Love.

Even the most heinous apostates can be reconciled to God.

To God we are all like His children.

He will not judge us.

And He will not condemn us.

This is why Jesus said, "For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners." Matthew 9:13b (NRSV)

We can pray for those who persecute and abuse us to be reconciled to God.

This is what it means to love our enemies.

And who is to say that God will not redeem them?

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]                                                                                                    

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