Week 1 God's Love for our City

This message confronts the tragedy of modern Christianity—receiving forgiveness without full devotion. Drawing from John 18, it contrasts Barabbas’ ungrateful freedom with Jesus’ sacrificial love, exposing how many live forgiven but unchanged. The call is to mature—to grow from spiritual infancy to Christlike sonship, where love is no longer imitation but transformation. Through the stories of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, we see how cowardly hearts become courageous when wrecked by the love of God. Like the shepherd who carries the broken lamb close to His chest, God restores those who have lived in fear, religion, and self-preservation.

This is a message of awakening: a call to rise from comfort, lay down self, and live as those fully surrendered to the One who gave everything.