Today will begin with the Choices talk and will progress towards Opening the Door. Men will have come to this Kairos weekend in Baker Correctional for many reasons. However, we will learn that we are where we are today because the choices we have made or even those choice which were made for us. God in His grace offers us the opportunity to open the door to a friendship with God through the forgiveness offered through His Son's life, death and resurrection.
In prison, love and forgiveness are unheard of but through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Prison is a hard dark place that produces the hardest of hearts. Yet God's light penetrates the darkness and the hardest of hearts. Prison may be a very violent place but how much more violent was the death of the very Son of God, Creator of mankind who was brutally butchered and spat upon, for what? For whom? Yes my friend, for you and for me. We had a debt we could not pay, He paid a debt He did not owe, and why? Love.
That is why we are going into this prison this weekend.Love. Not our love. His Love. No man has greater love than this, "That He lay down His life for His friends." Yes God desires a friendship with these men just like He desires a friendship with you. No more, no less. The reason He forgave us is simple.
Love.
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