Love Wins--Theme for Easter Camp07

Love Wins.
It’s the highest cause in all humanity.
It’s our universal commonality.
It’s our most divine need.
It’s the commodity we trade for security and identity.
It’s the language of Hope, and the fingerprint of Justice.

Love Wins.
Love seeks no other agenda.
Love is God’s supernatural territory.
Love is a spiritual force not a trivial human thought.
Love always pursues the good.
Love is unconditional and abundant.

Love Wins.
Love doesn’t have to fit the Law because Love is the ultimate fulfillment of the Law.
Love breaks the bonds of the broken and the oppressed.
Love doesn’t want payback, doesn’t ask for reciprocation and never holds back.
Love is the motivation of justice, the power behind hope, the fuel of forgiveness.
Love pursues, Love trusts, Love hopes, Love gives, Love stands strong, Love never fails.

Love Wins. (the Gospel)
Jesus is the ultimate expression of God’s love.
His life was an example of Love lived out. He demonstrated compassion, justice and hope for the broken and hungry as well as the faithful. He never failed in bringing the light of God’s Love in every situation. (Romans 13:8-10)
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbour as yourself." 10 Love does no harm to its neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the law. (NIV)
8-10 Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love. (The Message)
He willingly was led to death on our behalf, to reconcile human beings to God and one another. His death was the perfect fulfillment of God’s plan for restoration.

Love Wins. (Social Justice)
We don’t live a half-strength decaf trim latte flavoured Gospel. We don’t exist in a framework of vanilla-bland Truth, we don’t live with a powerless Hope. True Justice, Hope and Freedom comes when we genuinely learn to love one another, and learn to forgive. When we learn to live in the light and willingly bring the light to others. When we learn to love one another, saved or not, without any other agenda than Love itself. This is God’s love and mercy, shown to one another. (Isaiah 58:6-12)
6 "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? 8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. 9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. "If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, 10 and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. 11 The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. 12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.